Lulu Wang on Making EXPATS | Directors Close-Up - Film Independent | Amazon Prime

Expats is the first series from Spirit Award winner (and Project Involve Fellow) Lulu Wang. We're thrilled to welcome Lulu back to the 2024 Film Independent Directors Close-Up o share her experiences bringing this ambitious project to life.
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FEATURING:
Lulu Wang (Writer/Director; Expats, The Farewell)
Dani Melia (Producer; Expats, The Farewell)
Yong Ok Lee (Production Designer; Expats, Minari)
Moderated by Karyn Kusama (Director; Yellowjackets, The Invitation)
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This rhetoric on equity helps explain what clearly happened in the writers' room for the last few episodes, melting down into melodrama and lack of singular style. Episodic drama is not really different than feature films: they require the same discipline, and believable characters.