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A queer coming-of-age romance set in a Chinese restaurant - Lucky Fish

Emily May Jampel · USA · Romance / Drama / Comedy · 8 min · 647K views
With Lukita Maxwell, from Backrooms

Directed by Emily May Jampel · Starring Lukita Maxwell, Anna Mikami, Zoe Del Giudice, Fanny Lawren · 2022

Stuck at a stifling family dinner in a Chinese restaurant, teenage Maggie slips away and meets Celine, who leads her into a dreamy back room with a fish tank.

A dreamy, funny sapphic meet-cute that captures the thrill of finding someone who gets you.

In her debut short film, writer and director Emily May Jampel stages the perfect meet-cute between two Asian-American teenagers who share a similar distaste for their respective families’ expectations about who they shou

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