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- In a mainstream entertainment landscape that’s still sorely lacking on-screen Asian representation, Emily Ting ‘s winning “ Go Back to China ” will inevitably draw comparisons to other films like “Crazy Rich Asians” and “The Farewell.”
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Go Back to China is a 2019 drama film written and directed by Emily Ting. It stars Anna Akana as Sasha Li, a trust fund wannabe designer whose father pressures her to go to Shenzhen to learn the family business.
Apr 25, 2019 · The Los Angeles-based director and producer recalls how being pushed into the family’s toymaking business in Hong Kong put her moviemaking dreams on hold – but not for too long.
Mar 11, 2019 · In a mainstream entertainment landscape that’s still sorely lacking on-screen Asian representation, Emily Ting ‘s winning “ Go Back to China ” will inevitably draw comparisons to other...
Mar 9, 2020 · Emily Ting: The documentary I made in 2007 was called “Family Inc.” At the time I was two years into my journey of going back to China and working for the family business, so my perspective then was very different than it is now over a decade later.
- Developing Directing Chops
- Fictionalizing Her Own Life
- On Getting A Feature Made
- On Film School
- Making A Movie in China
"Family Inc.was made over a decade ago, when I was in my early 20s," Ting said. "So I think I was in a very different state of mind back then, because I really did think going back to China was the end of my life. Now it's 10 years later, and I think with a little bit of perspective, I could see how entitled I was back then." Ting said she also had...
"In between making [Family Inc.] and now, I've learned a lot in terms of the rules the screenwriting, the three-act structure," Ting said. "So this was not literally a biopic of my life or my family's life, this is very much a fictionalized account that was inspired by my family." Drawing upon such personal experiences and emotions have lent an aut...
Ting self-financed Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong, willing to take the risk as a first-time feature director on a project that she was passionate about. "The movie was successful in that it was well-received, and we made our money back," Ting said. "And I was able to get representation out of that film. So it was like everything that you wanted to g...
Ting graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, although she then took a long detour to return to China. By the time she returned, she said, most of her friends had moved to Los Angeles, and she had been out of the film scene for several years. The key element that film school provided her, in this case, was the connection to a community of fil...
Although this is her second feature to shoot in China, Ting said she faced some cultural pushbackwhile on the set of this more complex project. "I think the biggest challenge, in terms of working in Asia, is that the whole concept of indie film, like these microbudget indie films, is quite foreign to them," she said. That is, the studio system in H...
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Mar 9, 2019 · Go Back to China is director Emily Ting’s most personal film to date: toy factory and all. After failing to find a job in Los Angeles, spoiled designer Sasha (Anna Akana) is forced by her father Teddy (Richard Ng) to return to China against her wishes to work for the family’s toy factory.
Mar 10, 2019 · 'Go Back To China' Review: Emily Ting's Character-Driven Indie Is Another Big Win For Asian-American Filmmakers. By Joi Childs / March 10, 2019 9:10 am EST. At her sixth interview, the...
