[Only IN Hollywood] Sundance-winning ‘Didi’ portrays Asian American coming of age, immigrant family tale

Winner of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, 'Didi' offers a treatise on racial identity, the pressure and conflict to belong, and multigenerational family dynamics

This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.Winner of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, 'Didi' offers a treatise on racial identity, the pressure and conflict to belong, and multigenerational family dynamics, one of the year’s best films, is also one of the most relatable, regardless of your age and race.

Typical of many immigrant families, Chris lives with his mom Chungsing , sister , and grandma or Nai Nai . In addition to casting his wai po, who is in her 80s, Sean filmed in his childhood home, including his bedroom as a kid.), where he follows wai po and nai nai as they go about their daily lives sharing one house in California, even sleeping together on the same bed.

“Then it struck me. I was like, literally the movie that I’m setting up to make has an audience for it. People clearly want this type of movie. And also that movie poster with Izaac’s face, an Asian American 13-year-old.” “She saw the movie for the first time at Sundance. She hadn’t seen any dailies or rough cuts but she watched the movie and loved it. There’s a dedication to her at the very end of the credits. She didn’t expect that. She was very moved.”’s other remarkable real-life family connection is Zhang Li, utterly convincing, with her pointed comments at her daughter-in-law, Joan’s Chungsing.“She really did her homework. She took it really seriously.

“For like two years, I was like, wai po, you’re gonna play the grandma in our movie, right? And she was like, no, no, no. I can’t do that. That’s like a real movie. We did a documentary.” “Joan put her hand on my shoulder and was like, you have nothing to worry about. She’s amazing. And she was incredibly natural. Joan, to her credit, was incredibly generous, too, and warm, and as the trained actress in the equation.”

“The scene introduces exactly where she is in her life. I didn’t have to do a lot – just to take it all in and try so hard to control.” “Also, I am an immigrant mother. I raised two American children and exactly like what’s in the script, though our professions or personalities are different, the core of the emotional truth is something that resonates with me very much. So it just felt really natural.

“I thought it might speak to every Asian American kid who didn’t fit into the parts we are ‘supposed to,’ myself included. We are nuanced. We are multi-faceted.”Didi

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