US EditionHow director Bing Liu found a ‘unicorn’ for ‘Preparation for the Next Life’
The film explores the complex relationship between an undocumented Uyghur immigrant and a veteran, highlighting cultural and personal struggles drawn from director Bing Liu's experiences.
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‘Preparation for the Next Life’ Filmmaker Bing Liu on His Narrative Feature Debut and Why a ‘Minding the Gap’ Sequel Is Unlikely
The director says it would be challenging to recreate the conditions behind his Oscar-nominated skating doc, which nobody could have anticipated would become such a success.
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How director Bing Liu found a ‘unicorn’ for ‘Preparation for the Next Life’
After filmmaker Bing Liu returned home to Chicago from a Colorado film festival in 2018, a package arrived from “Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins, who’d met Liu there and told him to stay in touch. “He was on the jury,” Liu says of Jenkins’s role at the Mountainfilm Documentary Festival, where Liu’s debut film “Minding the Gap” won a pair of awards on its way to an eventual Academy Award nomination for best documentary feature. “He was like, yo…
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