Lulu Wang

Lulu Wang (Chinese: 王子逸; pinyin: Wáng Zǐyì; born February 25, 1983) is a Chinese-born American filmmaker. She is best known for writing and directing the comedy-drama films Posthumous (2014) and The Farewell (2019). For the latter, she received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film and the film was named one of the top ten films of 2019 by the American Film Institute. Wang has also written, produced, and directed several short films, documentaries, and music videos. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lulu Wang (filmmaker), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series and performances.

Release Date2015-08-02

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The American Film Institute Salute to ...

In 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a yearly recipient whose talent has fundamentally advanced the film art; whose accomplishments have been acknowledged by scholars, critics, professional peers and the general public; and whose work has stood the test of time.

Release Date1973-04-02

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Episode Count1

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Bottomless Brunch at Colman's

Each week, Fear the Walking Dead's Colman Domingo will send a couple of friends all the mixings for a cocktail of choice, have them make something delicious and invite them to brunch, and he's inviting you too.

Release Date2020-05-03

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Episode Count1

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Art-House America: Austin Film Society

Founded by Richard Linklater in 1985 as a screening series dedicated to bringing experimental and art cinema to the city of Austin, Texas, the Austin Film Society has grown into a cornerstone of the city's creative community - while remaining true to its edgy, eclectic roots.

Release Date2023-05-01

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Expats

Set against the complex tapestry of Hong Kong residents, a multifaceted group of women sets off a chain of life-altering events that leaves everyone navigating the intricate balance between blame and accountability.

Release Date2024-01-25

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count100

Dìdi (弟弟)

In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.

Release Date2024-07-26

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count146

The Farewell

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

Release Date2019-07-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1459

Posthumous

After false reports of his demise put him and his work on the map, an artist decides to continue the charade by posing as his own brother. Soon, a reporter enters his life and has a profound effect on him.

Release Date2014-10-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count55

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.

Release Date2019-12-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

The Eyes Are the Best Part

A terrifying tale of misogyny, Asian fetishization and cannibalism that follows a struggling college freshman named Ji-won who develops an obsession with eating human eyes.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Touch

An elderly Chinese immigrant's cultural ignorance gets him in irreversible trouble in a public restroom. Despite his harmless intentions, he struggles with his son and the legal system to make the context of his behavior understood.

Release Date2014-06-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Nian

A Chinese New Year legend reimagined as a contemporary coming-of-age story.

Release Date2021-02-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Neighbors

An older reclusive woman develops a close relationship with her recently widowed neighbor in an attempt to allow herself to be loved.

Release Date2021-04-06

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Children of the New World

Children of the New World grapples with our unease in this modern world and how our ever-growing dependence on new technologies has changed the shape of our society.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Again Again Again

Gus, man of honor for his closest friend Maggie’s extravagant wedding weekend at a Napa winery, is tasked with making sure the whole event goes off without a hitch. But when Gus' wildly charismatic but emotionally unstable boyfriend Hal unexpectedly shows up, chaos ensues and threatens to derail the wedding as well as their relationship.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Pisces

Explores the family dynamic between an introspective teenage girl and her single mother

Release Date2005-08-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Untitled Lulu Wang Project

Inspired by Hirokazu Kore-eda's Like Father, Like Son, follows a businessman who discovers that his son was switched at birth with another set of parents' child, and the one he's come to love is not actually his.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Can-Can

Mr. Fix-It, his wife calls him. She felt safer with him at home, and he helped look after the children, especially the baby. He lingers at the door before leaving the house to meet Sarah, whom his wife knows but does not suspect, and with her go to a house on a lake his wife knows nothing about.

Release Date2007-05-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1