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EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION

Lulu Wang is a Chinese-American film director, writer, producer, and has co-founded two production companies. She is best known for writing and directing Posthumous (2014) and The Farewell(2019), however, has also written, produced and directed several short films, documentaries, and music videos. Wang "brings her global perspective to telling entertaining stories in today's increasingly international culture." Wang is currently pursuing a film adaptation, and writing the script based on the short story Children of the New Worldby Alexander Weinstein which according to Wang, and similarly to The Farewell, "centres on questions of family." Currently, Wang splits her time between New York and LA.

Wang was born in Bejing, China to her father, a "Chinese diplomat for the USSR", and her mother, an ex "cultural critic and editor at the Beijing Literary Gazette. "Wang grew up in Beijing with her parents and briefly lived with her grandmother for a year in Changchun before immigrating to Miami, Florida at age 6, where she was raised, as her father was pursuing a PhD at the University of Miami. She studied at Boston College from 2001-2005, and completed a Bachelors of Arts in Creative Writing. After moving to Los Angeles in 2007, Wang secured a job as a Producer's Assistant on the set of Pineapple Express, however was let go from this position after trying to pass along one of her short films to the Director of Pineapple Express, David Gordon Green.

Wang began classical piano lessons at age four and attended the New World School of the Arts in Miami for piano performance, and as a result, is a classically trained pianist. She is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese, and also speaks some Spanish.

CAREER:

Lulu Wang opened up her own production firm, LegalREEL Productions, a company that works for plaintiff firms, with the goal being to "use video to fight for justice" and to "tell the stories of those clients who have been unjustly harmed." Wang was inspired to open up her firm after working on the set of Pineapple Express and being inspired by director David Gordon Green and wanting to spend more time on her creative pursuits while still making money.

Wang opened up her own production firm, LegalREEL Productions, with John Champion (Producer). LegalREEL is company that works for plaintiff firms, with the goal being to "use video to fight for justice" and to "tell the stories of those clients who have been unjustly harmed" and is based out of Santa Monica, California. Wang is also a producer and founder of Flying Box Productions, alongside Joe Paley (Executive Producer), which was founded in 2008, and is based out of the United States.

Wang was encouraged to open up her own firm(s) after working on the set of Pineapple Express and being inspired by director David Gordon Green, wanting to spend more time on her creative pursuits while still making money.

Filmography

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