Florence from Ohio
Organization
Once in a Blue FIlms
Artist
Carrie Weprin
A playful film about the generational and cultural divide between Florence Wang and her second-generation daughter, Stephanie, who, dressed in her mom’s iconic St John Knit power suits and re-creating her 1980s local TV cooking show, becomes Beta-Florence, a radical reinterpretation of Asian American identity. But soon Beta-Florence develops a mind of her own, exposing tokenism and the unspoken personal toll of racist acts, pushing mother and daughter into uncharted territory. This project is also supported by the Sundance Institute, Creative Capital, Field of Vision, NBC Universal, and SFFILM.