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Wuhan Driver
STATEMENT:
It was March 2020, and New York was just experiencing its first lockdown. I remember getting picked up by a gray Toyota Camry. Sitting behind the wheel was an anxious, overworked Chinese man who looked like he hadn’t slept in days. Ironically from the city of Wuhan, he confided in me his struggles as an Uber driver. Life for him was about survival. Striving to make ends meet, he faced prejudice night after night. As a filmmaker from Hong Kong, I understand his loneliness—and I wanted to make a film that questions our capacity for kindness during turbulence.
BIO:
Tiger is an award-winning filmmaker from Hong Kong, currently concentrating in Transcendental Cinema at NYU Gallatin. At 19 years old, he caught the attention of Academy Award-winning producer Jonathan Sanger (Elephant Man) with the script for Wuhan Driver and shot it during the lockdown in New York. He then premiered the film at Oscar-qualifying festivals including the LA ShortsFest and the Rhode Island International Film Festival, where it won the Filmmaker of the Future Award. Tiger has studied under Argentinian arthouse filmmaker Lucrecia Martel and is inspired by the cinema that subverts cultural stereotypes of the Asian American experience.
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