Focus Features has set “Didi 弟弟,” the coming-of-age Sundance film from newcomer Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, Chang Li Huawriter-director Sean Wang, for a release on July 26.
Wang was recently nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Short for “Nai Nai & Wài Pó,” in which he followed his grandmothers as they went about their lives together. The short doc won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at SXSW as well as the Audience Prize at TheWrap’s ShortList Film Festival.
Set in 2008, “Didi 弟弟,” stars Izaac Wang” as a 13-year-old Taiwanese-American teen enjoying the last month of summer break before he goes off to high school.
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