PEOPLE OF INFLUENCE | Alice Wu Director, Screenwriter Designed software for Microsoft before pursui

PEOPLE OF INFLUENCE | Alice Wu

Director, Screenwriter

• Designed software for Microsoft before pursuing filmmaking full-time

• Most well-known for directing and writing romantic comedy Saving Face (2004) which was an official selection of the Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals.

• She gave herself 5 years to get her script turned into a film

• The 5 year deadline hit the day right after the film’s wrap

• Advised to make her characters white…

• … and heterosexual…

• … and to get rid of the Mandarin dialogue…

• She refused

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