The feature from Sean Wang won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award at the 2024 Sundance fest.
Focus Features had landed the worldwide rights to Sean Wang’s feature directorial debut Dídi, which won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award at the 2024 Sundance Film Fest.
The film, which is set in 2008 in the San Francisco Bay Area, follows an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy who learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, how to love your mom.”
Izaac Wang (Good Boys) stars in the film, alongside Joan Chen, Shirley Chen and Chang Li Hu. The film was also awarded the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast.
The film was produced under Carlos López Estrada’s Antigravity Academy, which is billed as a production company and talent incubator specializing in creating opportunities for emerging filmmakers. Wang was recently nominated for an Oscar for his documentary short Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó.
López Estrada, Josh Peters, Valerie Bush and Wang produced the movie. Chris Quintos Cathcart, Tyler Boehm, Robina Riccitiello, Joan Chen, Chris Columbus, Eleanor Columbus, Dave A. Liu and Jennifer J. Pritzker executive produced.
