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Synopsis: An immigrant mother in California's San Gabriel Valley takes desperate measures to help her unstable teenage son as she uncovers his obsession with mass shootings. Inspired by true events. Trailer: Runtime: 97 Minutes – Directed by Eric Lin (Directorial Debut) My Bio: Marilyn Fu is an American screenwriter of Taiwanese descent whose work focuses on adaptations and true stories that explore American identity through a multicultural lens. She is the screenwriter of Rosemead, a feature film starring Lucy Liu and based on the award-winning Los Angeles Times article by Frank Shyong. The film earned her a 2025 Golden Horse Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay — one of Asia’s highest honors in cinema. Fu also wrote The Honor List, executive produced by Zoe Saldaña and released by Lionsgate, and The Sisterhood of Night, based on a short story by Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Millhauser, for which she received the Tribeca Film Institute’s Creative Promise Award. In television, Fu is a writer on Peacock’s upcoming espionage thriller The Copenhagen Test, starring Simu Liu and executive produced by James Wan. She also adapted the bestselling novels of Karen Kingsbury into The Baxters, a faith-based family drama for Amazon/MGM, executive produced by Will Packer and Roma Downey. Earlier in her career, Fu was a writer/reporter for over 40 publications under Time Inc. She earned her degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she became the first recipient of the William Goldman Screenwriting Fellowship and later returned to teach television writing. —————————————————————- Ask me anything! I'll be back Wednesday 11/12 at 12:00 PM ET to answer your questions 🙂 submitted by /u/MarilynFuAMA |
