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Alexandra Hsu
Alexandra Hsu
SCMP Contributor
Alexandra Hsu is an award-winning director and producer, born and raised in Orange County, California. Alexandra has directed five short films, three of which have premiered at Oscar-qualifying festivals. Over the last few years, she’s been a part of the SFFILM FilmHouse Residency, Women in Film Mentoring Program as a director, the CBS Leadership Pipeline Challenge, Kearny Street Workshop’s Interdisciplinary Writers Lab, Cine Qua Non Lab Storylines Lab, the Asia Society Asian Women Empowered Program, Unlock Her Potential, and is now a Creator in the Gold House Futures Network. She is currently developing her first feature Beach House to be made this year. She received her MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Asia and her BA from Scripps...

A writer and filmmaker recounts her Chinese great-grandmother’s remarkable journey, from rejecting having her feet bound as a toddler in Shanghai to being matriarch of a far-flung and adoring family.

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