In 1965, Wendy Ru-Wen Tan, Tiffany’s mother, was separated from her parents and never saw them again. More than four decades later Tiffany flies to Taiwan, to look for her mother’s birth parents, with nothing more than a napkin with two names on it. What she finds is a story of connection across generations.
Followed by a discussion moderated by Fawzia Mirza (queer South Asian Muslim writer/director/producer) with the filmmaker Tiffany Hsiung and her mother Wendy Ru-Wen Tan.
Fawzia Mirza is a Canadian-born film and TV writer and director. She is known for her works such as web series Kam Kardashian, Brown Girl Problems and the film Signature Move.
Tiffany Hsiung is a Canadian documentary filmmaker.[1] She is most noted for her 2016 documentary film The Apology, which won a Peabody Award in 2019,[2] and her 2020 short documentary film Sing Me a Lullaby, which won the Share Her Journey award at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival,[3] and the Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021.[4]
