fremont california

Writer/director Sean Wang and I were both raised in California. He grew up in Freemont, a suburb of San Francisco. He gets California. But he also gets people. He knows how to externalize what is going on in everyday interactions that makes me feel seen. If you look at us both, we don’t seem at all similar – different gender identity, ethnicity, age. That is the power of film, the power of art. Didi is for anyone who made it through the summer before high school. We were all on the edge of making decisions that we were told would last a lifetime. Wang brings us right back there, but this time we have a friend, so we don’t feel so alone.