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Alice Wu (Chinese: 伍 思 薇; born April 21, 1970) [1] 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.
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 ...
- January 1, 1
- Director, Writer, Editor
- San Jose, California, USA
- Alice Wu
The Half of It: Directed by Alice Wu. With Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, Alexxis Lemire, Wolfgang Novogratz. When smart but cash-strapped teen Ellie Chu agrees to write a love letter for a jock, she doesn't expect to become his friend - or fall for his crush.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Alice Wu
- 2020-05-01
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...
- 3 min
- Natalie Escobar
May 1, 2020 · The Half of It. Comedy. 104 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2020. Christy Lemire. May 1, 2020. 4 min read. The pieces may seem familiar in “The Half of It,” but the way Alice Wu assembles them results in a fresh and inspired whole. The writer/director’s queer take on “ Cyrano de Bergerac ” features several of the kinds of characters we so often ...
Alice Wu ( 伍思薇, born April 21, 1970) is an American film director and screenwriter. In both of her films, the main characters are Chinese American. For the film Saving Face, a number of production companies offered to buy the script for the film, but Wu opted not to sell it in order to uphold an authentic portrayal of the Taiwanese ...
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.
