""What I love most about the movies is that when we go into the theater, we experience the feelings that these characters share...and we can relate to that. This is something which I feel like it is the most magical about the movies.""
""If we can create these feelings, to allow others to experience what we are experiencing or what we have experienced before. This is a great privilege.""
""It is about a tofu company in San Jose that is a family business that closed after 71 years. So I structured it and made it longer, sent it to film festivals and started getting the film shown.""
""I decided I wanted to make a narrative film, my shift from nonfiction to fiction.""
Sean Au, a filmmaker from Singapore, finds magic in the emotional experiences movies provide. His love for film began with visits to the theater with his mother. After earning degrees in film and journalism, he started his career in television, which fueled his desire to create films. His first documentary focused on a family tofu business that closed after 71 years. He later transitioned to narrative filmmaking with 'What We Said in the Blackout,' which explores missed dating opportunities and received international acclaim.
Read at ABC7 Los Angeles
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