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Apr 24, 2024 · Movies. Movie News. How ‘Dìdi’ Director Sean Wang’s Bay Area Roots Helped Him Make His Feature Debut. From festival grants to a job at Google to his own grandma, the Fremont native’s personal...
- Rebecca Sun
Jul 24, 2024 · Wang flew back to Sundance to find that “Dìdi” had landed a distribution deal with Focus Features, the indie studio behind “The Holdovers” and “Belfast.”
Jul 31, 2024 · Wang, 29, is the toast of his hometown this month with the release of his first feature film, “Dìdi,” which opened Friday, Aug. 2, in the Bay Area and expands nationally on Aug. 16.
- Staff Writer
Aug 2, 2024 · The production team shot on location at the Dixon Landing ledges, a globally known skate spot that has since been demolished, as well as business parks around the Fremont area and several high...
- Dan Gentile
- Senior Culture Editor
Jul 25, 2024 · In “Dìdi,” writer/director Sean Wang returns to his suburban Northern California hometown of Fremont to tell a semi-autobiographical story of life as a 13-year-old Taiwanese American growing ...
- Chris O'falt
Jul 30, 2024 · Wang, a Fremont native, writes and directs this semi-autobiographical film set in his Bay Area hometown during the summer of 2008. It follows his charming Oscar-nominated documentary short,...
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Jul 31, 2024 · Ahead of the film’s release in the Bay Area, Wang sat down with CAAM over Zoom to discuss telling a story about an “outsider in a community of outsiders” and why it was so important to him to shoot the film in his hometown of Fremont.
