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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.
- Filmmaker, screenwriter
- April 21, 1970 (age 53), San Jose, California, U.S.
- Stanford University (BS, MS)
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
May 1, 2020 · A little over 15 years later, Alice Wu is back with her second film, The Half of It, released May 1 on Netflix. Like her first, the movie features a queer Chinese American protagonist. This...
- 3 min
- Natalie Escobar
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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 jock win...
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Apr 29, 2020 · By Robert Ito. Published April 29, 2020 Updated May 1, 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.
May 25, 2020 · May 25, 2020. (L-R) Director Alice Wu and actor Leah Lewis KC Bailey. Light spoilers for The Half of It ahead. The number of major feature-length films that feature queer Asian American female protagonists is few and far between.
May 6, 2020 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — “The Half of It” director Alice Wu is not like other filmmakers. It’s not because she happens to be Asian American, female and gay, although that does put her in a rare class. Wu is not like other filmmakers because she doesn’t really think of herself as one.
