In early 2021, as COVID-19 cases surged, filmmaker Sean Wang moved back to his childhood home in Fremont to live with his parents and his maternal and paternal grandmothers.
What was supposed to be a pitstop between New York to L.A. stretched to a nearly year-long stay during which Wang fell into a charmed daily existence with his doting grandmothers, who’d dance and joke with him and “we’d all kind of light up with a smile.”
Outside, the world was in upheaval. Hospitalizations were soaring, and his grandmothers stayed home, not only to steer clear of the virus but a parallel rise in anti-Asian violence that was raining down on the most vulnerable.
“I was reading in the headlines about people like them being attacked,” Wang, 29, said. “That was kind of the catalyst for ‘Let’s make something that can be an antidote to all of the anger that I’m seeing and feeling and really capture what I see in my grandmothers who are so full of life and humanity, and compassion.'”
With a rented camera and a small crew of friends, Wang made a short film with a “home video…
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