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