For the Chinese, the color red is said to bring great fortune and good luck. Behind the red doors in Georgia Lee’s debuting feature we are introduced to the Wongs, a dysfunctional Chinese-American family headed up by Ed (Tzi Ma), a quiet retiree who has secretly attempted suicide 30-40 times, mom May-Li, whose sole goal is to service her family, and three headstrong daughters – workaholic eldest sister Samantha heading towards a 30-year crisis, Julie the mousy middle sister training to be a DR, and Katie a teenage rap choreographer and disaffected high school senior who is obsessed with devising elaborate “love” gifts for the boy next door.

Ed’s life is mundane. His hearing is failing him, his family ignores him and he spends most of his time alone watching old family home movies (the Director’s own childhood footage) and playing ping-pong with a machine in the basement. While Sam’s relationship with her finance beings to unravel, Julie’s love life begins to blossom when she falls for a movie star, Mia Scarlett (Mia Riverton) researching her next acting roll in the hospital. When Ed has a senior life crisis and disappears, the women of the house are forced to re-evaluate their own lives and relationships.

Winner of numerous festival awards including the Audience Award for First Narrative Feature and the Grand Jury Award for Screenwriting at Outfest,Red Doors is a smart and charming film that shines a deserving spotlight on the relationships we have with our parents and siblings.

Georgia Lee is a cum laude graduate of Harvard University. She was selected by Martin Scorsese to be his apprentice on the set of Gangs of New York. In 2003 she was awarded the Film Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her first feature, Red Doors won the Jerome Foundations New York Media Arts Grant Award.

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