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Saving Face is a 2004 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Alice Wu, in her feature-length debut. [2] The film focuses on Wilhelmina, a young Chinese American surgeon; her unwed, pregnant mother; and her dancer girlfriend. It was the first Hollywood movie that centered on Chinese Americans since The Joy Luck Club (1993). [3]
Saving face" is an idiom for preserving one's honor or prestige Saving Face may refer to: Saving Face, a 2004 American romantic comedy drama, named in reference to the sociological concept. Saving Face, a 2012 documentary short film "Saving Face", a season 2 episode of The Casagrandes
Saving Face is a 2012 documentary film directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Daniel Junge about acid attacks on women in Pakistan.The film won an Emmy Award and the 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject, making its director, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Pakistan's first Oscar winner.
Alice Wu (Chinese: 伍 思 薇; born April 21, 1970) [1] is an American film director and screenwriter, known for her films Saving Face (2004) and The Half of It (2020).. Both of her films feature Chinese-American main characters and explore the lives of intellectual, lesbian characters.
Lynn Chen (Chinese: 陳凌; pinyin: chén líng) is a Taiwanese-American actress and singer. She is best known for playing Vivian Shing in the film Saving Face, a role for which she won the "Outstanding Newcomer Award" at the 2006 Asian Excellence Awards. [1]
Saving Face is a 2004 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Alice Wu. The film's Wil (Michelle Krusiec) is a lesbian, but she is too afraid to tell her widowed mother Hwei-lan or her strict grandparents. She is shocked to discover that her 48-year-old mother is pregnant, and that she is not the only member of her family with romantic ...
Her Academy Award win for Saving Face made her the first Pakistani to win an Academy Award, [24] [25] [26] and she is one of only 11 female directors who have ever won an Oscar for a non-fiction film. [27] [28] [29] She is also the first non-American to win the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. [26]
Experiences of face-saving and face-loss can influence one’s mood and self-esteem. [31] Moreover, people’s moods can be influenced by whether the face of those close to them are saved. [31] Findings also reveal that caring for others through saving face can have a positive impact on one’s interpersonal relationships with others. [31]