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‘Năi Nai & Wài Pó’ Director Sean Wang Wants His Love Letter To His Feisty Grandmas To Also Remind Us Of Hate Crimes Against Asians – Contenders Film: The Nominees
Filmmaker Sean Wang and his grandmas discuss their Oscar-nominated Live-action short film Năi Nai & Wài Pó' and why he felt it was important.
Filmmaker Sean Wang ‘s endearing live-action short Năi Nai & Wài Pó might seem to be perhaps the lightest of all the Oscar nominees in the category, but he had more on his mind in chronicling the lives of his inseparable grandmothers, the 94-year-old Năi Nai (Yi Yan Fuei) and 83-year-old Wài Pó (Zhang Li Hua) as they go about their daily lives, even sleeping in the same bed in their Bay Area home. The recent spate of violence against innocent people in the Asian community in America was also on Wang’s mind as he joined us for Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees. “They gave me, their grandson, a little shout-out, which I won’t repeat, even though I just did, and you know, they said … we didn’t think we were going to get nominated, but then our name came up, and everyone around us started jumping and freaking out, and we were like, ‘Wait, is this real?
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