Margaret Leng Tan, her five-decade career has positioned the musician as a figurehead of avant-garde music, owing in part to her unique incorporation of the toy piano in her performances. A close associate of the late John Cage, we meet Leng Tan at the age of 71 as she embarks on an iconic collaboration with George Crumb, one of the last remaining avant-garde composers of his era. TWINKLE DAMMIT! gives access to the rarely-seen creative process between two musical geniuses, and peels back the public layers of the world's greatest toy piano virtuoso to explore the private obsessions that have led to a life committed to art.

Born in China, Chuang Xu is an award-winning film director and producer based in New York. Xu received his MFA degree at Social Documentary Film department in School of Visual Arts. His career started in 2013, he worked on a variety of documentary series about environmental conservation. Xu focused on exploring the motivations of human behaviors through fanciful, nostalgic, and intimate hybrid of styles in storytelling. TWINKLE DAMMIT! is his directorial documentary feature debut.

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