Director Justin Chon’s Ms. Purple debuts at Sundance tonight in Park City, Utah.
The film follows a daughter’s refusal to send her dying father to a hospice, but instead sacrifices her dreams to care for her father until the end.
Tiffany Chu plays Kasie, the daughter.
“Being from Asian cultures, we live with our parents until we die, or a lot of us do,” said Chon about his follow up to his acclaimed film Gook. “My job as an Asian American filmmaker is to bring empathy to our community and also to represent what’s not being put in front of the masses. And I think the more specific and the more intimate I can get, sometimes that becomes much more universal, for everyone,” Chon said to Variety.
As Forbes reports, it’s rare for a director to return to Sundance twice. Chon’s first Sundance film, Gook, won the Next audience award and then the Kiehl’s Someone to Watch Award at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards.
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