Wabi-Sabi
Malibu Film Festival (2024)
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19m
When an insecure, half Japanese woman's invited on a date to a traditional tea ceremony, her best friend's advice on how to avoid white-guys-with-Asian-fetishes threatens to ruin her love life and sanity.
Director Biography
Josephine Green Zhang is a comedy writer/director/sometimes performer from Pasadena, California. She aspires to create stories which empower characters to rise above their circumstances and find their happy endings – with a special focus on misfits, underdogs and flawed, funny women. Josephine is an alumni of UCLA's Film Program, Film Independent's Project:Involve Fellowship; UCB's sketch program; and the Universal Writers Lab. She has worked as a tv writer on Season 2 and 3 of FIRST WIVES CLUB on BET+ and on Season 2 of DOLLFACE on Hulu. She has developed projects for Netflix, Disney+, and Bound Entertainment.
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