First-time feature filmmaker Sean Wang was determined to make a movie that felt “homegrown,” and that’s exactly what he achieved with Dìdi, both on screen and behind the scenes.

The film is set in 2008 when Chris Wang (Izaac Wang), a.k.a Wang-Wang, is 13 years old. It’s the last month of summer before he starts high school and he’s eager to have a thriving social life — even if it means pretending to be what he thinks others want, not who he truly is. That experience comes with a significant amount of coming-of-age learning curves, including “how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.”

Hot off attending the Academy Awards as a nominee for his short film, Nai Nai & Wài Pó, Wang arrived in Austin for SXSW where he’d continue to celebrate his debut feature, Dìdi, after its Sundance world premiere. While there, Wang took the time to swing by the Collider interview studio for a chat about making the pivot from shorts to his first feature, how the Dìdi script evolved along the way, how he scored Motion City Soundtrack’s first new song in years for the film, and loads more.

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