Jury Comment of 2016 Tribeca Film Fesitival when this film get its 'Student Visionary Award' is "For its naturalistic tone and compelling performances, this film impacted us in a real way."
Right before this film was set to shoot, a typhoon blasted through the city and shook up the production schedule. Despite the challenge of having to eliminate a full shooting day, Director Yi Liu and Producer Chieh Yang managed to pull it off and keep their entire cast and crew safe through the storm.
In an interview with Taiwan media, Director Yi Liu said he applies this film to Taipei Film Festival in response to the question when Taiwan movie audiences could see this film. However, 'Ping Pong Coach' is not recognized by the Jury of Taipei Film Festival and can't be listed in the 10 short films list of formal competition at 2016.
In the process to modify the script, Chieh Yang and Yi Liu have many different views for the personality of roles perhaps mainly due to their different genders and feeling about love. The Writer, Chieh Yang, think the protagonist should be direct and straight-talk. But the Director, Yi Liu, a straight man, think the protagonist should be an introverted character who buried the feelings in the heart and avoided the conflict. After continuous discussions between partners, they make a lot of adjustments on the performance of personalities of roles. But eventually they found that, perhaps in fact the protagonist has not changed, but just presents through various way.