September 22, 2006
Georgia Lee on "Red Doors" -- opening today in San Francisco and Los Angeles!

Georgia Lee's debut feature film "Red Doors" opens today in San Francisco and Los Angeles after a blow out first weekend in New York City. Read on for an interview with Lee in which she discusses the film, the parties, and how it feels when an elderly, non-Chinese man tells her, "I am Ed Wong."

Greg Pak: What’s the film about and who should go see it?

Georgia Lee: RED DOORS is a dark comedy about the Wongs, a quirky dysfunctional family in New York. As the three daughters each grow up and grow apart from their parents, the family struggles to stay connected with each other. The patriarch, Ed Wong (Tzi Ma), has just retired and plots to escape his mundane life. However, the tumultuous, madcap lives of his three rebellious daughters change his plans.

I hope that EVERYONE will go and see it! But seriously, I do think that audiences of any age, gender, race, socio-economic background, and sexual orientation will relate to the film since it is primarily a film about family and the growing pains that we all experience with our siblings, parents, and children. As the film is about a Chinese-American family and a subplot revolves around a lesbian daughter, we have also found that RED DOORS seems to resonate especially well with the Asian American and LGBT communities as well.

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