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	Small Change: Alice Wu's "Saving Face"
		Wu's desire for a more inclusive world -- fl and white and Asian, gay and straight, young and old -- admirable though it may be, is mired down in the awkwardness so common to virginal directorial attempts.
		I would also like to say, this being Alice Wu's first major motion picutre, that the movie gave people like myself and my queer Asian American friends hope and left us feeling that we could be accepted for who we are.
		If you knew Alice Wu's background, you'd see that she really knows what it's like to grow up as a child of an immigrant generation.
	www.indiewire.com /movies/movies_050524saving.html (1489 words)

	Alice Wu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alice Wu (伍思薇) is a American film director and screenwriter.
		Alice Wu was born and raised in San Jose, California, where she graduated from Los Altos High School.
		Wu's most noted work is her 2004 film, Saving Face.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alice_Wu (185 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Wu, Alice
		Wu carefully scripted its blend of Mandarin and English dialogue to reflect authentic discourse between the generations of Chinese in America, and enlisted her mother as a language consultant.
		Wu, who acknowledged her own lesbianism at 19, drew episodes such as the mother's initial reaction to the daughter's coming out and their eventual reconciliation from her own life.
		Wu acknowledges Pedro Almodovar's influence in her use of color, especially noticeable in the lighting of the hospital and playground encounters.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/wu_a.html (1292 words)

	ASIAN POP Alice in Indieland / "Saving Face" director Alice Wu comes out as a computer geek turned hot property ...
		NEW YORK -- It's Sunday afternoon on Memorial Day weekend, and Alice Wu, director of the new romantic comedy Saving Face, is sitting in the Angelika Theater, Manhattan's pre-eminent venue for art-house cinema, waiting for her closeup.
		Wu herself refers to it as a "screwball romantic comedy" in the grand tradition of Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn -- that is, if Grant happened to be a not-quite-out lesbian cosmetic surgeon and Hepburn her enigmatic ballerina flame.
		Wu points out that the film really has three separate yet intertwined love stories: the mom's, the daughter and her girlfriend's and the mom and the daughter's.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2005/06/02/wu.DTL (2015 words)

	Alice Wu - Victoria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Alice Wu was born in the Federated Northland States, but her family moved to Marcharius when she was just one and half years old, and her name was changed to a Marcharian one.
		Alice has become friends with Silth and through her, Letanos, with whom she was previously feuding over whether or not it was too soon to begin human trials of Network implants.
		Alice is now directing the project to analyze Akira Kobayashi's Assistant implants.
	themidlands.net /victoria/index.php?title=Alice_Wu (235 words)

	Saving Face: Natural Physiques: DVD
		Wu, however, manages to bring a less derivative style to her venture due to the unique cultural subtext and more importantly, because her script unspools the fates of the main characters in meticulous vignettes.
		Wu is by no means a subtle filmmaker, and the young lovers (a doctor and a ballet dancer) constant consumption of street vendor hot dogs dares to lose credibility, but somehow, despite the often sloppy narration, "Saving Face" works.
		Wu delivers a realistic cinematic world in which her characters comfortably transition from English to Mandarin just as many first- and second-generation immigrants do in real life.
	www.naturalphysiques.com /amazon/shop.php?c=DVD&n=130&k=Alice+Wu&t=Director&s=sr&p=1 (1484 words)

	U-WIRE.com/INTERVIEW: 'Saving Face' portrays unconventional love story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		After receiving her master's degree from Stanford, Wu went on to work for Microsoft for five years as a program manager at Cinemania and Music Central, and during that time began to think of the idea for her story.
		Wu then decided to take her screenplay to the next level and met with a variety of producers.
		Although Wu's film is a work of fiction, her characters draw closely from her personal life.
	www.uwire.com /content/topae060205001.html (1068 words)

	SGN Page 22 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The first thing one notices about Alice Wu, the director of the very funny and poignant Lesbian comedy Saving Face, is how totally hot she is. I met her two weeks ago, the day her film was to open in the Seattle International Film Festival, here, and in L.A., and New York, the next week.
		Wu added that some of the members of the Asian-American Lesbian group that she and some friends started while she lived in Seattle between 1992 and Â’96 came to the opening screening and cheered her on.
		Asked if the film was true to her own life, being that the two main characters are Asian-American and Lesbian, Wu said that whereas she did pull some of her own experiences into the film, it wasnÂ’t autobiographical in a Â“true storyÂ” sense.
	www.sgn.org /sgnnews23/page22.cfm (702 words)

	Message to mom: for her new lesbian romantic comedy, Saving Face, out filmmaker Alice Wu draws on her own life ...
		Latino is really big!'" Wu refused to compromise her vision: "There is no way this community would be as conservative and insular as they are if they spoke English.
		Wu drew on her own life for the emotional aspects of Wil's relationship with Ma, "but not the circumstances," she is careful to clarify.
		Yet Wu has lingering concerns about her mother's feelings: "I reminded my mother that once the film comes out, all of her friends would see it and know why I'm not married.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2005_June_7/ai_n14839541 (688 words)

	Saving Face: A Chat with Alice Wu, Joan Chen, Michelle Krusiec, and Lynn Chen
		Alice Wu is making her directorial debut in her feature film, Saving Face, a romantic comedy about a daughter, Wil (Michelle Krusiec) and mother, Ma (Joan Chen) who face unsuspecting cultural and relationship challenges.
		Alice: Yeah, but what's weird though is that when you are writing these things, at least for me, because this was my first script, I don't know that it even occurred to me that there would be an audience.
		Alice: Various producers who were interested in producing it and various studio execs.
	www.ialink.tv /e_news/6-01-05/savingface1.html (2021 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Saving Face' \| Alice Wu
		So, when filmmaker Alice Wu was going to the Aquarius Theater in Palo Alto in the mid-1980s, one of her favorite movies was about a Swedish boy negotiating life without parents: My Life As a Dog.
		Wu was so energetic that it was not so much a matter of interviewing her as it was a matter of keeping up with her.
		Wu was born in Kaiser Hospital in Santa Clara, the daughter of academics who escaped the Cultural Revolution in China.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/05.25.05/wu-0521.html (3419 words)

	Alice Wu saved up her own doubts and struggles and turned them into the new comedy 'Saving Face'
		Even though she fought for years to direct her personal project, the Chinese American family comedy "Saving Face," won battles with producers and got to use her dream cast, Alice Wu still wasn't sure she had the stuff to be a director.
		Wu was showing Chen the dowdy apron her character would wear as a traditional Chinese mother.
		Wu had realized she was gay while taking a gender studies course at MIT and was visiting home when she came out to her mother, talking in Mandarin, the family's native language.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/06/DDGCHD3GOT1.DTL (919 words)

	Cincinnati CityBeat : 01/26/2005 : Pop-Up Sundance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Sundance packing for filmmaker Alice Wu, who comes to Park City for the first time in support of her mother/daughter drama, Saving Face, covers more than just clothes and a toothbrush.
		Wu's final screening was Jan. 24, which means she has the rest of the festival to learn how to snowboard and figure out how many pairs of jeans to select at the festival gift houses.
		Wu says she based the script on her own coming-out experiences with her mother.
	www.citybeat.com /2005-01-26/film.shtml (919 words)

	Hyphen Magazine: Asian America Unabridged - Features
		Face to Face with Alice Wu A computer geek turned director makes her debut with Saving Face, the first Asian American Hollywood film since The Joy Luck Club.
		It’s amazing that Wu, a former software designer and first-time director, was able to stick by her vision through the Hollywood machine and tell her story of 3 generations of a Chinese American family.
		Alice Wu: I don’t remember the moment, I just knew as I was writing it I started thinking about the Chinese community I grew up in.
	www.hyphenmagazine.com /features/web_exclusives/alice_wu.php (1050 words)

	Interview with Alice Wu and Joan Chen of "Saving Face" \| AfterEllen.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Alice Wu, the out lesbian writer/director, is so enthusiastic about her debut film, Saving Face, that it’s hard not to share in her excitement.
		An official selection of both the Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals, Saving Face is about to open in select cities nationally, introducing her creation to an even larger audience.
		Alice Wu: Often I think of it as more of an Asian notion, although the concept of it is very universal across many cultures.
	www.afterellen.com /People/2005/5/wu-chen.html (1083 words)

	Saving Face - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the same time, her mother must decide whether the demands of her father's reputations, or the demands of her own heart, are more important.
		Alice Wu, who directed the movie, wrote the script several years earlier, drawing on her own experiences "coming out."
		In 2001, the script won the CAPE screenwriting award, which led to the production of the film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saving_face (225 words)

	Cincinnati CityBeat : 06/29/2005 : Straight Out of Flushing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It's a weeknight midway into the hectic 10-day January festival, and Wu is celebrating her film with cast and friends at the basement bar of a barbeque restaurant on Park City's crowded Main Street.
		Wu, a smiling tomboy with straight fl hair tucked beneath her stocking hat, laughs even louder at Chen's unintended joke.
		Sunday screening, Wu does what every filmmaker is supposed to do at Sundance -- she thanks everyone for getting up early and coming.
	www.citybeat.com /2005-06-29/film2.shtml (1010 words)

	Amazon.com: Saving Face: DVD: Michelle Krusiec,Joan Chen,Lynn Chen,Jin Wang (II),Guang Lan Koh,Jessica Hecht,Ato ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		But, in Alice Wu's "Saving Grace" this "imposition" naturally evolves into a re-connection between Wil and her mother that also blossoms into a deeply loving and respectful relationship.
		Wu, who also wrote as well as directs here has fashioned a film that steers clear of the chasm of melodrama and sentimentality that often plagues this type of scenario with her crisp dialogue, acidic wit and precise directing of the mise en scene.
		The character of Ma is played by the hauntingly beautiful Joan Chen and in Chen's hands Ma transcends her physical and social limitations and becomes a full-bodied, open-hearted person: ready for the prospect of really living,ready to give birth and not afraid of the future and maybe even finding a father for her baby.
	www.amazon.com /Saving-Face-Alice-Wu/dp/B000AQOHN0 (2567 words)

	eFilmCritic - Interview: Joan Chen and Alice Wu on "Saving Face"
		Wu: I got my Bachelors and Masters in computer science and spent five years working in the software industry and was not thinking about becoming a filmmaker at all.
		Wu: For me, and I often say this, it is hard to imagine dealing with any story without some level of humor.
		On some level, this story is not inherently comic—what is going on is actually a very tragic drama with a mother and daughter both dealing with secrets and shame and a 48-year-old woman being disowned by her father.
	www.efilmcritic.com /feature.php?feature=1513 (2320 words)

	Daniel Wu - The #1 English FanSite ~InLoveWithDanWu~
		Welcome to In Love With Dan Wu This layout was inspired by the film "New Police Story" starring Daniel Wu as psychotic, scorching hot killer, 'Joe Kwan', with the colour scheme consisting of army greens, white and fl.
		Wu Helu, Manager of Shanghai Cinema Union, said "The Banquet" is not just Feng Xiaogang's best film, but also the best domestic film of the year.
		Daniel Wu was born in San Francisco, California and moved to and grew up in Orinda, California.
	inlovewithdanwu.50webs.com (8097 words)

	Articles
		Alice Wu American, working as an intercultural consultant and trainer in the USA.
		Alice's teaching experience has ranged from teaching English to Swedish engineers, through teaching assistants culture and presentation skills, to teaching at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
		Alice has produced two videos on global nomads which she showed at SIETAR (Society for Intercultural Education Training and Research), and NAFSA (Association for International Educators) conferences this year.
	www.career-in-your-suitcase.com /Articles/TB/alice_wu.htm (158 words)

	Saving Face Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		In her filmmaking debut, Wu takes an affectionate yet sharp-eyed look at the romantic trials and tribulations of both a closeted lesbian and her widowed mother.
		Buoyed by strong performances from stars Joan Chen and Michelle Krusiec, Wu's film may not break any new ground cinematically, but Saving Face is nonetheless a heartfelt and witty film that favorably compares to Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet, even if Wu lacks Lee's subtlety and wraps everything up a little too neatly.
		Well-meaning and leisurely paced, Alice Wu's Saving Face offers little new to the field of second-generation American-immigrant cinema (is this a genre?) beyond a secret lesbian affair and gal-on-gal nudity.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=140717 (1242 words)

	SFist: Interview: Alice Wu
		Such is the enchanting vision of life in the Bay Area as seen by Alice Wu.
		My name is JJ Lee, and I wanted to get in touch with Alice Wu to get her authorization to play her movie at the largest lesbian bar in Korea, Lesbos.
		Though Alice and me were growing different country, I found we have something in common, and I have a dream to be a filmmaker too.
	www.sfist.com /archives/2005/05/26/interview_alice_wu.php (1880 words)

	INTERVIEW: Alice Wu Talks 'Saving Face' - RopeofSilicon.com Interview
		Alice: The thing is it's not a cynical film; I'm not a cynical person.
		Alice: No. Joan did, she lives here but she was born in China.
		Alice: Not at the Joy Luck Club, but it was a kind of commentary on what most people know about Asian film, most people can name like five Asian films if that.
	www.ropeofsilicon.com /news.php?id=2355 (1605 words)

	Rarer Still: Film Freak Central Interviews Joan Chen & Alice Wu
		Wu, talking fast, using her hands, addressed me in a way forthright, almost aggressive.
		Chen as she talked about the creative arts as essentially selfish, and I felt challenged a time or two out of the blue by the irrepressible Ms.
		Wu, who chose to take adversarial positions on a few occasions where there wasn't any kind of natural polarity.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /notes/savingfaceinterview.htm (2041 words)

	New York Blade Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		First-time director Alice Wu (left) has directed a charming farce from her own script about a Chinese-American surgeon who falls for a ballerina (played by Lynn Chen, right).
		While Wu isn’t new to movies, she’s been working in the film business for about five years, she is new to feature-film directing.
		In playing it so nonchalantly, Wu has made a gay film that isn’t necessarily all that gay, but it is exceptionally real.
	www.newyorkblade.com /2005/6-3/arts/main/alice.cfm (1088 words)

	Asian American Film: News
		Following the premiere of her feature film debut "Saving Face" on September 12 at the Toronto International Film Festival, writer/director Alice Wu announced that Sony Pictures Classics had come on board the night before to distribute the film.
		Wu was joined by her principal cast, Joan Chen, Michelle Krusiec and Lynne Chen at the sold-out screening.
		Alice Wu’s short “Trick or Treat” is wonderful, so I can’t wait to see “Saving Face”.
	www.asianamericanfilm.com /archives/000848.html (665 words)

	Letters from Camp Rehoboth - June 3, 2005 - ON Q
		The story is not autobiographical, but as Wu revealed in a recent conversation with On Q, it was her sometimes-complicated relationship with her own mother that provided her inspiration.
		ALICE WU: At the time, my mom was going through a really difficult time.
		She was 48, and I saw her go through something where she was essentially ostracized by the Chinese community and all her friends.
	www.camprehoboth.com /issue06_03_05/on_q.htm (1315 words)

	OnMilwaukee.com Movies: Wu makes auspicious debut with "Saving Face"
		Wu's script is well written and the film is alluringly photographed and paced and features a few plot twists that keep things interesting.
		But most of all Wu's character studies draw us in and the performances of the principles are so passionate that we remain engaged.
		If Wu can build on such an auspicious debut, her talent ought to take her far.
	www.onmilwaukee.com /movies/articles/savingface.html (464 words)

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