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Writer-Director Ziyu Luo On Tackling The Generational Divide Between Immigrant Parents And Their Children In ‘American Daydream’ — HollyShorts Film Festival
Chinese filmmaker Ziyu Luo talks to Deadline about her debut short film American Daydream at the HollyShorts Film Festival
Set in New York’s Chinatown, the story centers on the life of Marilyn (Jessica Lee), a young Chinese American gynecologist who yearns to follow her dreams of moving to Los Angeles and trying her hand at acting. The only caveat is the guilt she carries from potentially leaving her undocumented immigrant mother ( Yan Cui), who has come to rely on her for survival in the U.S. My grandma was crying and begging them to leave our family alone, but my mom, being the incredibly strong woman she is, refused and fled her hometown to another town where no one knew her and secretly gave birth to me.
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