On Tuesday, Sean Wang’s “Nai Nai & Wài Pó” received an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Short. The film is a loving look at Wang’s two grandmothers, who are best friends and live together. It was also a finalist in TheWrap’s 2023 ShortList Film Festival, and winner of the audience award.
Wang shot the film in the Bay Area in spring of 2021, when hate crimes against Asians were on the rise. “For the first time since leaving home, I was spending months under the same roof as my two grandmothers and I would see them and hang out with them and their sort of quotidian rhythms of life,” Wang told TheWrap Editor-in-Chief Sharon Waxman at Sundance this month, where Wang’s feature debut, “Didi,” was playing.
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