Cultural Tapestry: The Making of a Boundary-Defying Film - Mick Unplugged | Leif Bristow

It is not an easy story to get made. And even within the Chinese community, like somebody will say, you're, you're a white guy. What are you doing making a movie about Chinese? And it was when we went to the film festival, Russell Yuen, who plays the father in the movie came and he said, said, you have to understand in our culture, the Chinese filmmakers would have made this movie. All have family in China and so they're afraid to make it. Correct. And we were specifically asked by the Chinese community if they came to me very specifically and said, would you make this movie? Because we need this story to be told. So I'm a director directing human emotion and family interaction. That's what I do. So what we did is a collaboration is I have entire cast of some of the most phenomenal Chinese talent you could ever hope to see on a screen. They were from Norway and from England and a whole bunch of other places.