Filmmaker Stephanie Wang-Breal sets out to cross the generational divide, confronting long-simmering tensions with her Chinese immigrant mother by literally becoming her. Dressing in her mom’s iconic St John Knit power suits and re-creating her 1980s local TV cooking show, Stephanie becomes Beta-Florence, a radical reinterpretation of Asian-American identity.

About The Team

Stephanie is a co-founder of Once in a Blue films, a female-run production company. Her work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, the Ford Foundation, NYSCA and the Jerome Foundation; she is the recipient of a 2019 Chicken and Egg Artist Award, as well as a 2020 Creative Capital Artist Award and Guggenheim Fellowship. She is also a commercial director repped by the good guys at Good Company and has directed spots and image campaigns for Planned Parenthood, Minwax, Facebook, Apple, and Tiffany and Co. Stephanie currently resides in Brooklyn, New York with her son and daughter.