Title: Saving Face (2004 film)
Content: Lynn Chen as Vivian Shing ; Michelle Krusiec as Wilhelmina Pang ; Joan Chen as Hwei-lang Gao (Mother/Ma) ; Jin Wang as Wai Gung (Grandfather) ; Guang Lan Koh as Wai Po (Grandmother) ; Jessica Hecht as Randi ; Ato Essandoh as Jay ; Wang Luoyong as Dr. Shing ; David Shih as Norman ; Brian Yang as Yu ; Nathaniel Geng as Stimson Cho ; Mao Zhao as Old Yu 
Title: Saving Face (2004 film)
Content:  In 2002, Wu submitted her script for Saving Face to a contest sponsored by the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment and won. It was there that she met Teddy Zee, the president of Will Smith’s production company, Overbook Entertainment. Zee described the process as "an awakening for me about the Asian-American experience in Hollywood, because I was always such a part of the studio system. Every day there are actors coming in who are Chinese-American, who don't get an opportunity except to play prostitutes or waiters." As a first-time director and writer, Wu faced many challenges in maintaining her vision of the film. Studios that saw potential in her script wanted to make it like My Big Fat Greek Wedding. She was asked to make the characters white so that they could cast Reese Witherspoon as Wil and Ellen Burstyn as her mother. The studio then tried to compromise and asked to make the love interest white so that a star like Scarlett Johansson could bring more attention to the film. Despite further proposals for script changes, Wu maintained that the Mandarin dialogue, lesbian romance, and her involvement as both writer and director were non-negotiable.
Title: Saving Face (2004 film)
Content:  Saving Face is a 2004 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Alice Wu, in her feature-length debut. 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). The name itself is a reference to the pan-East Asian social concept of face.
Title: Saving Face (2004 film)
Content:  Alice Wu, who directed the movie, wrote the script several years earlier while working as a program manager at Cinemania and Music Central, Microsoft's CD-ROM entertainment department. She originally started writing a novel inspired by her experience coming out as a lesbian to her middle-aged mother. Wu came out to her mother in her last year of college and remembered her reaction as “she basically said, 'I don't think you're gay, and I never want to see you again.' We didn't talk for two years. But I never doubted her love for me. It had everything to do with her willingness to make changes in her own life to be happy." Since then, Wu and her mother grew very close, resulting in Wu dedicating Saving 
Title: Saving Face (2004 film)
Content:  Saving Face premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 12 September 2004, and made its way around the independent film circuit, screening at Sundance Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival. It was chosen as the opening night film in 2005 for the Florida Film Festival. The film was subsequently bought by Sony Pictures Entertainment before going into a very limited release in the US on 27 May 2005.
Title: Saving Face (2004 film)
Content:  Alice Wu described the casting process as “a challenge” due to her difficulty in finding Mandarin speaking actors. She felt the film needed to be bilingual in order to make it authentic and believable and thus met with over one thousand actors before finding the right cast. Wu also experienced an issue in casting one of the main roles because the actor was stuck in China due to visa problems; therefore, she had to use her second choice, who was in the United States. Saving Face was Lynn Chen's first feature film and Michelle Krusiec's first lead role. At her first audition, Lynn Chen played Vivian simply as a friend of Wil's in the vending 
Title: Saving Face (2004 film)
Content:  Filming began in fall 2003 on the $2.5 million project. Saving Face was filmed on location in New York’s Flushing, Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan on 35 mm film. Featuring the New York City Chinese-American community, the film features in a mixture of Mandarin Chinese and English. The production team came across budgetary issues when Wu insisted that they include landscape shots of New York to ground the film in its environment. With little money left, the team was able to film in a helicopter that was being used to get aerial shots of Manhattan for the movie Hitch.
Title: Saving Face (2012 film)
Content:  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. The film was inspired from the life of acid victim Fakhra Younus, who died by suicide in 2012.
Title: Saving Face (2004 film)
Content:  Saving Face initially opened at only 6 theaters, making $75,104 (averaging $12,517/theater) in its opening weekend, and went on to gross $1,187,266 from 56 theaters in its theatrical run. It grossed an additional $49,252 in the UK, for a worldwide gross of $1,236,518.
Title: Alice Wu
Content:  Encouraged by her screenwriting teacher, she left Microsoft in the late 1990s to try to turn the script for her first feature film Saving Face into a film, giving herself a five-year window. Production had begun when she reached the fifth year. In 2001, the script for Saving Face won the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment screenwriting award. Saving Face was released in 2005. The film was inspired by her own experiences coming out as a lesbian in the Taiwanese American community. She has said that she would like the audience to come away from it "with this feeling 

Question: Who was the screenwriter for Saving Face?
Answer: Alice Wu.