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   Alice Wu (Chinese: 伍 思 薇; born April 21, 1970) is an American film director and screenwriter, known for her films Saving Face (2004) and The Half of It (2020). Both of her films feature Chinese-American main characters and explore the lives of intellectual, lesbian characters.

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3. www.imdb.com › name › nm1226108Alice Wu - IMDb

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   Alice Wu. Director: The Half of It. Studied computer science at MIT and Stanford University, where she received her bachelors and masters degrees. Left a job designing software at Microsoft to write and direct her first film, Saving Face, which premiered at the Toronto and Sundance Film Festivals, where it was acquired and released by Sony ...

   • Birth Date: January 1, 1
   • Occupation: Director, Writer, Editor

   • Birth Place: San Jose, California, USA
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4. www.them.us › story › the-half-of-it-director-aliceThe Half Of It Director Alice Wu on Making Subversive, Queer ...

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   May 25, 2020 · After a 14-year hiatus from filmmaking, Wu further subverted classic romance tropes with the new coming-of-age drama, The Half of It, which arrived on Netflix May 1 and received the top award at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.

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6. www.npr.org › sections › codeswitchWhat Alice Wu Wants To Say In 'The Half Of It' - NPR

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   May 1, 2020 · Alice Wu's 2004 film 'Saving Face' changed the landscape of LGBTQ and Asian American cinema. Now, she's back with her new film 'The Half of It,' a sweet teen movie that bucks easy...

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7. www.nytimes.com › the-half-of-it-alice-wuAlice Wu’s Lesbian Rom-Com Was Influential, but Her Follow-Up ...

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   Apr 29, 2020 · When Alice Wu wrote and directed her 2005 debut, “Saving Face,” she knew it wasn’t going to be your typical Hollywood rom-com. Other than the “Last Emperor” star Joan Chen, cast wildly...

8. www.vanityfair.com › hollywood › 2020Alice Wu’s The Half of It Is a Thoroughly Modern Queer ...

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   Apr 28, 2020 · Alice Wu’s The Half of It Is a Thoroughly Modern Queer Romance. The director opens up about her new Netflix film, a Cyrano -esque tale in which a gay high schooler helps an earnest...

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   Who is Alice Wu?

   • Saving Face and Wu's impact on the industry have paved the way for greater Asian representation in the film industry today. Her work has inspired Asian-American actresses such as Awkwafina and Lana Condor. Alice Wu was born in San Jose, California to parents who were immigrants from Taiwan.

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   Is Alice Wu's 'the half of it' a teen movie?

   • Alice Wu's 2004 film 'Saving Face' changed the landscape of LGBTQ and Asian American cinema. Now, she's back with her new film 'The Half of It,' a sweet teen movie that bucks easy classification.

   What Alice Wu Wants To Say In 'The Half Of It' - NPR

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   Did Wu come out to her mother?

   • When Wu did come out to her mother—the beloved central force of her life, someone a warmly chatty Wu can’t help rambling on about like an engine kicking into high gear—the process didn’t go smoothly. The two of them eventually made up, and years later, the experience made its way into a movie: the director’s 2004 debut film, Saving Face.

   Alice Wu’s The Half of It Is a Thoroughly Modern Queer Romance

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   How did Alice Wu come to terms with her queerness?

   • Among the infinite catalog of scenarios in which a person might come to terms with their own queerness, Alice Wu ’s version was, by her own admission, a bit on the nose. In college, Wu’s feminist-studies class asked its students to write hypothetical coming-out letters to their parents.

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10. nofilmschool.com › alice-wu-comeback-interviewThe Comeback of the Filmmaker Who Refused to Be the 'Ang Lee ...

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    Feb 26, 2021 · Alice Wu started her life as a computer scientist for Microsoft who never went to film school. Her first film Saving Face exploded on the indie scene. As a gay Taiwanese-American filmmaker, Alice Wu was told her career could be huge. All she had to do?