Behind the scenes of the table tennis family video

At the closing ceremony of this year's 31st Asian-American International Film Festival, Chinese-American female director Jessica Yu's work "Ping Pong Family" made its debut. The film revolves around table tennis.

< p>Describes the intergenerational conflicts and strong family ties within a Chinese immigrant family, using "a vivid and lively way to show a Chinese living and working condition that is completely beyond the imagination of the general audience."

Based on her mother’s family, Yu Linmin is considered to be the fifth generation of Chinese descent, while her father immigrated to the United States from Shanghai in the previous generation. She was born in New York, but her parents took her to California when she was a child. She later graduated from Yale University and was once a fencing master who was proud of the United States. After Yu Linmin graduated from college, she went to Hollywood to do some basic script work and then tried to shoot her own movie. She first started with documentaries. Perhaps due to the delicate nature of women, her films can often observe human nature from a more detailed perspective.

In 1997, her work, Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien, a documentary about the life of the severely disabled poet Albright, won an Oscar. She also became the first Chinese-American director to win the Best Documentary Award. Her representative works include "In the Realms of the Unreal" and "Protagonist". This time, she co-created the film with Cai Pei'en***, the accountant of Cherry Sky Film Production Company, which also brought a refreshing feeling to the audience.

The film’s starring and screenwriter Cai Pei’en is also legendary enough. Although there are often generalists in Hollywood who are responsible for directing, screenwriting, acting, production, editing, etc., it is indeed rare to see people like him who are also accountants. Pei-en Tsai was born into a family of Taiwanese immigrants, grew up in Houston in the south, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in business management. He has created some comedy commercials. In 2005, he created the character image of C-dub, a "non-model minority", which attracted Yu Linmin's attention. With the director's encouragement, he personally starred in this lazy and undisciplined C-dub. "C-dub". In order to cope with the playing scenes in the film, he practiced table tennis for more than half a year. The hard work pays off, and his swinging movements in the film are really impressive.