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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.
Saving Face is a 2004 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Alice Wu, in her feature-length debut. [2] . The film focuses on Wilhelmina, a young Chinese American surgeon; her unwed, pregnant mother; and her dancer girlfriend. It was the first Hollywood movie that centered on Chinese Americans since The Joy Luck Club (1993). [3]
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 ...
- April 21, 1970
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.
Jul 8, 2020 · Introducing Alice Wu: A Q&A with the director of ‘The Half of It’. Courtesy of Netflix. By Angelina Hue and Jonathan Arnold. July 8, 2020, 12:07 a.m. Stanford Arts has brought in a number of...
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 ...
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...
