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Seeking Asian Female

United States

2012

80 Min
Color
English
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DIR Debbie Lum

PROD Debbie Lum

DP Debbie Lum

ED Tina Nguyen, Amy Ferraris, Debbie Lum

MUSIC Gordy Haab

SOUND Phil Perkins

SXSW (Documentary Feature Competition)

Synopsis

Seeking Asian Female is an eccentric modern love story about Steven and Sandy – an aging white man with “yellow fever” who is obsessed with marrying any Asian woman, and the young Chinese bride he finds online. Debbie, a Chinese American filmmaker, documents and narrates with skepticism and humor, from the early stages of Steven’s search, through the moment Sandy steps foot in California for the first time, to a year into their precarious union. Global migration, Sino-American relations and the perennial battle of the sexes, weigh in on the fate of their marriage in this intimate and quirky personal documentary. –SXSW

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7May13

This was terrible and gross.

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SXSW 2012 Review: SEEKING ASIAN FEMALE Questions Men, Women, Cultures, and Filmmakers

By Twitchfilm.com on March 16, 2012
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