East Bay native and filmmaker Sean Wang, center, brought his grandmothers Yan Fuei, left, and Zhang Li Hua to the annual Academy Awards luncheon in Hollywood.Two endearing, fun-loving grandmas from Fremont — 86-year-old Chang Li Hua and 97-year-old Yi Yan Fuei — could well upstage you and any other celebs hitting the red carpet this Sunday as part of the 96th Academy Awards.
The 30-year-old filmmaker shot the short in 2021 when he returned home for a few months after living in New York and before he returned to Los Angeles, where he had attended the University of Southern California. He had an amazing time, he said, hanging out with them, just as he has in the past. “That juxtaposition of extreme anger coupled with extreme joy — just hanging out with them — it just made me want to turn the camera on them and capture their humanity, capture the essence of who these two women were in my life that really humanizes them and help them feel seen,” he said.
The grandmothers have been basking in all this attention and even become quite the celebrities in and around their East Bay neighborhood. In addition to the Oscar nomination, Wang’s delightful feature film debut “Didi ” — a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age dramedy about a 13-year-old Taiwanese American skateboarder and the growing pains he experiences in 2008 Fremont — nabbed three awards after its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and got picked up for distribution by Focus Features.
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