Background
Alice Wu, who directed the movie, wrote the script several years earlier, drawing on her own experiences "coming out." In 2001, the script won the CAPE screenwriting award, which led to the production of the film. Filming began in fall 2003 on the $2.5 million project.
Featuring the New York Chinese-American community, the film is in a mixture of Mandarin Chinese and English.
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