Anne Hu
LUNCHBOX
Pre-production grant
Fund to be used for casting and travel to Cleveland.
About the project: When a Taiwanese American woman prepares lunches from her childhood, she struggles to forgive herself for pushing away her immigrant mother.
About the filmmaker: Anne Hu is a Taiwanese American, award-winning director, writer, actress, and editor. Her directing focus is in narrative film and TV. As seen in The Hollywood Reporter, Hu made the 2020 Alice List for Emerging Female Filmmakers who Have Not Yet Directed a Feature. She shadowed director Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer) on Netflix’s The Society. Hu is also a fellow of the 2019 Space on Ryder Farm Film Lab.
She has directed, written, and acted in award-winning short films. Her short CAKE was accepted into 38 festivals, earned 9 awards, and was featured in The Washington Post. As an actor, she has trained at T. Schreiber Studio and The Barrow Group. In CAKE, she and the cast were nominated for Best Ensemble.
Hu hopes to provide catharsis for audiences and inspire them to regard marginalized voices with their whole humanity. She is managed by Writ-Large.