Anna Chi
2021The Disappearance of Mrs. Wu
Anna Chi
Lisa Lu, Michelle Krusiec
Aware that her time is running short, irascible Wu family matriarch Lily is eager to repair the strained relationship with her adult daughter Mary and help her shy 18-year-old granddaughter Emma find her voice. As her final wish, she persuades longtime friend Charlotte, Emma and Emma’s best friend Karen to spring her from her L.A. nursing home and take a wild road trip up the California coast to a special place from her past. Along the way, long-held secrets are revealed and Mary and Emma each come to understand the painful choices their mothers made in this funny and touching multi-generational story about family, forgiveness and being true to oneself.
The Disappearance of Mrs. Wu
Blindness
Anna Chi
A blind Asian-American woman lives with her son and daughter-in-law. The two women barely tolerate one another and the son, a doctor simply turns himself off to avoid any confrontation with either. Into this environment, an armed intruder breaks in. He is eventually revealed to be an old family friend who was sent to prison for murdering his father, but he insists that the older woman's husband, now deceased, was the actual murderer. Slowly, all the characters have to explore past hidden secrets about themselves.
Blindness
Dim Sum Funeral
Anna Chi
Kelly Hu, Steph Song
An Irish funeral has a wake. A Jewish funeral has sitting shiva. A traditional Chinese funeral is something else entirely. Thats what the estranged siblings of the Chinese-American Xiao family must undergo upon news of their mothers death. The one brother and three sisters dont get along, however they share one thing: hatred for their domineering and manipulative mother, the Dragon Lady."
Dim Sum Funeral
Swimming
Anna Chi
Michelle, a 17-year-old Chinese American girl, is trying to figure out her sexual identity. One day, she is left in charge of her 4 month-old baby sister and decides to take the baby to the beach. While Michelle thinks the outing creates a special bonding between them, her parents blame her for being irresponsible.
Swimming