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Inspired by the harrowing true story, Lucy Liu transforms in a riveting, career-redefining performance as an ailing woman who takes drastic measures to protect her troubled teenage son.

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Inspired by the harrowing true story, Lucy Liu transforms in a riveting, career-redefining performance as an ailing woman who takes drastic measures to protect her troubled teenage son (Lawrence Shou). As his dark obsessions grow and time runs out, she is forced to make impossible choices: how far will she go and what is she willing to sacrifice? Set against the simmering tensions of a Chinese American community, Rosemead is a gripping portrait of a family pushed to the edge.
 

Meet the Filmmakers

ERIC LIN (林文德) — Director
It was while majoring in sociology and film studies at UC Berkeley that director Eric Lin decided to dive into the world of filmmaking. Now, he is best known for his cinematography work on the critically acclaimed The Exploding Girl (Oscilloscope), The Sound Of Silence (IFC Films), House Of Spoils (Amazon Studios), I Smile Back (Broad Green), and Hearts Beat Loud (Gunpowder & Sky), which premiered at prestigious film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, and Toronto. Early in his filmmaking days, Lin’s own New York University MFA short documentary, Music Palace, gained notice and played at influential festivals such as Telluride and New Directors/New Films. Rosemead marks Lin’s feature directorial debut.

Marilyn Fu (傅世晏) — Screenplay
Marilyn Fu is a writer on Peacock’s espionage thriller series, The Copenhagen Test , executive produced by James Wan and starring Simu Liu. She wrote the pilot for the Will Packer/Roma Downey-produced The Baxters on Amazon Prime. In features, she wrote The Honors List, released by Lionsgate, and The Sisterhood Of Night based on a Steven Millhauser story, for which she won an award at Tribeca. Fu wrote and co-produced a sold-out run of her play Breather which premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. In 2017, the Tracking Board named her one of the Top 100 New Writers in Hollywood on the Young and Hungry List. Marilyn was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

Mynette Louie (雷敏妮) — Producer
Mynette Louie is a Spirit Award-winning, Emmy and Critics Choice-nominated producer. Her credits include Eric Lin’s Locarno/Bentonville-winning Tribeca 2025 selection Rosemead starring Lucy Liu, Heidi Ewing’s Sundance-winning, Spirit/Ariel/GLAAD-nominated I Carry You With Me (Sony Pictures Classics), Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ Tribeca-winning, Gotham/Critics Choice-nominated SWALLOW (IFC Films & Mubi), Jennifer Fox’s Golden Globe/Emmy/Critics Choice/Spirit/Gotham-nominated The Tale (Sundance / HBO), Aaron Katz’s Gemini (SXSW / NEON), Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation (SXSW / Drafthouse & Netflix), Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz’s Spirit Award-winning Land Ho! (Sundance / Sony Pictures Classics), and many more. Louie serves on The Academy’s.

Producers Branch Executive Committee and Film Independent’s Board of Directors, and is a member of Producers United. She was named one of Business Insider’s “12 Movie Producers at the Top of Their Game to Watch in 2020 and Beyond,” Ted Hope’s “21 Brave Thinkers of Truly Free Film,” and Indiewire’s “100 Filmmakers to Follow on Twitter.” Louie is also a professor and co-head of Creative Producing at Columbia University’s graduate film school. A native New Yorker, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University, where she studied Chinese literature and film.

Andrew D Corkin — Executive Producer
Andrew D Corkin is a Gotham Award-winning, Spirit Award-nominated producer who has produced the first films of acclaimed filmmakers Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin, Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, Andrew Renzi, and Terence Nance. Corkin’s producing credits include AfterSchool (Cannes / IFC Films), Spirit Award-nominated Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sundance, Cannes / Searchlight), Gotham Award-winning An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty (Sundance / Criterion Channel), We Are What We Are (Sundance, Cannes / eOne), The Benefactor (Tribeca / Samuel Goldwyn), A Vigilante (SXSW / Saban), documentary feature They Fight (Fox Sports), The Beach House (Shudder), The Desperate Hour (TIFF / Vertical & Roadside Attractions), and recent Shudder releases Alone With You and The Unheard. On the episodic side, he co-created and produced the Spirit Award-nominated Netflix documentary series Pepsi Where’s My Jet. Corkin graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and has taught producing as an adjunct professor at The American Film Institute (AFI), NYU, Boston University, and Emerson College.

Frank Shyong (熊紹岡) — Executive Producer & Article Author
Frank Shyong is a journalist who has written original stories on diaspora, culture and food in Southern California for 13 years. He covered the San Gabriel Valley and other communities for the Los Angeles Times for nearly a decade, and in 2019, he became the paper’s first Asian American columnist at the age of 32. His current project is a traveling newsletter on food and culture called Lunch Box, on Substack.

Lyle Vincent — Cinematographer
Lyle Vincent received his MFA in Filmmaking from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2006 and received the American Society of Cinematographers Heritage Award that same year. His most well-known work includes the universally praised A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, directed by Ana Lily Amirpour, for which Vincent earned a Spirit Award nomination. The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, and headlined MoMA’s New Directors/New Films. He followed with Amirpour’s The Bad Batch, which won the 2016 Venice Film Festival Special Jury Prize. Vincent’s work also includes the critically-lauded limited series The Staircase from HBOMax; Netflix’s psychological thriller Daniel isn’t Real; HBO’s Emmy-winning Bad Education; Dreamland; and the quirky mystery Thoroughbreds. Most recently, Vincent shot Jaume Collet-Serra’s Carry On, which quickly became the second most-watched Netflix film of all time globally. Vincent is a member of The Academy and the International Cinematographers Guild.

Joseph Krings — Editor
Joseph Krings, ACE is an editor of films and television. His most acclaimed narrative film is Captain Fantastic, which won Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival and earned an Oscar nomination for star Viggo Mortensen. In documentary, he edited Supermensch, directed by Mike Myers, winner of Best Documentary at the Hollywood Film Awards and nominated for an Emmy. His first episodic project, The Pentaverate, created by and starring Mike Myers premiered on Netflix. Most recently, Krings had two films, Winner and Love Me, premiere at Sundance 2024. Other notable credits include The Evening Hour, After The Wedding, Galveston, Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, and The Mend. Krings was named the 2013 Sally Menke Memorial Editing Fellow by the Sundance Institute. Originally from Nebraska, he now lives in Brooklyn.

Will Bates — Composer
Will Bates is an award-winning composer, multi-instrumentalist and founder of Fall On Your Sword. Bates has composed original scores for a myriad of filmmakers including acclaimed directors Mike Cahill (Another Earth, I Origins, Bliss ), Alex Gibney (We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks, Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief), and Craig Gillespie (Dumb Money, The Better Sister ). Bates’ recent film and television credits include Netflix’s The Life List, starring Connie Britton, Sofia Carson and directed by Adam Brooks; Neon’s Immaculate, directed by Michael Mohan and starring Sydney Sweeney; and AMC+’s Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, starring Alexandra Daddario. Bates currently resides in Los Angeles.