Kimmy Yam is a reporter for NBC Asian America.
Behind the giggles and farts shared between the two Taiwanese immigrant grandmas who star in the documentary short “Nai Nai & Wài Pó” is a critical statement about anti-Asian hate, the film’s director said. Director Sean Wang, whose film follows his own grandmothers, who live together as platonic soulmates, said he made the short as a counter to the narratives around Asian elders during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
“It was an antidote to the helplessness that I was feeling, the anger that I was feeling, the sort of antidote to all the ugly,” he said. “I’d walk into the room and we’d start dancing and we’d joke around.” While the project was, in part, a reaction to that era of anti-Asian hate, Wang said he didn’t feel it was necessary to make an explicit statement about the issue in the film. All he had to do was showcase the pair being authentically themselves.
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