Didi

Program:

Festival of festivals

Year:

2024

Country:

USA

Genre:

Fiction

Duration:

91’

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.

Schedule

Sean Wang

Sean Wang is an Academy Award-nominated Taiwanese American film director. He is a Google Creative Lab 5 alum, former Sundance Ignite Fellow, and 2023 Sundance Screenwriters & Directors Lab Fellow.

His documentary short Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó (Grandma & Grandma) premiered at the 2023 South by Southwest, where it won both the Grand Jury Award and Audience Award. It went on to be nominated for Best Documentary Short Film at the 96th Academy Awards. His feature-length directorial debut, DIDI, was premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where it received the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award.

Filmography: A Marble Travelogue (2021), Sunday (2021), Nai Nai & Wài Pó (2023)

Creative team

Director

Sean Wang

Screenplay

Sean Wang

Camera

Sam A. Davis

Editing

Arielle Zakowski

Production design

Hanrui Wang