Lucky Peach
A visually imaginative, deeply personal story about the tensions that develop between an immigrant mother and a young woman as she prepares to head abroad.
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The origins of Lucky Peach comes from wanting to explore two personal thematics on screen. The first and second generation migrant experience of Chinese Australians and the complexity of mental illness in families. In my experience stories of the diaspora often come deeply rooted in cycles of trauma and in the case of Lucky Peach our story explores ideas of growth and beauty born from old cycles of repression. Looking back at my own experiences growing up, there was a particular moment as an adult where I began reflecting upon the rich life and complex histories my migrant parents had lived well before I had entered the picture. This film provides a space to explore their story in not only coming to Australia but also raising a family here too. As well for a country like Australia that is still very much still dealing with its dark past, I believe there’s great value in exploring the many interweaving cultural experiences that make up our cultural landscape. In particular mining the feeling of isolation, disconnect from culture as well the desire to establish roots in a society that has not yet wholly figured itself out yet. Secondly, mental illness has played a large and personal part in my family dynamics with people close to me experiencing a range of illness from depression to schizophrenia. As a result I’ve grown up not only deeply curious to how the mind functions and perceives the world but furthermore it's important to me that it's explored on screen with a nuanced level of sensitivity. It's still something that society treats with stigma and shame, labelling those with mental illness as outcasts. In the case of Lucky Peach I’m interested in exploring the child-carer-parent relationship in particular, telling the story through the intimate lens of a mother and daughter connection.

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