Leslie Tai

An intimate and kaleidoscopic voyage behind the closed doors of the Chinese birth tourism industry in the U.S.

Welcome to the world of Amway Cupertino, a recruitment and training ground for the Chinese housewives of Silicon Valley.

The Private Life of Fenfen is a documentary film experiment that tells its tragic love story as a video installation. In 2007, the filmmaker gave Fenfen—a feisty young migrant worker in southern China—a video camera with which to start filming her epic video diary. In the film, however, fragments of Fenfen's video life—constructed out of over 100 hours of footage—are broadcast "live" on TV in various migrant worker locations across China. Inside cheap restaurants, hole-in-the-wall cigarette shops, and alley hair salons, everyone is watching Fenfen and consuming her real life as would-be entertainment.

China's elite and infertile are flocking to Southern California to hire American surrogates to have their babies for them.

When my grandma died, she managed to bring some of her things with her into the afterlife. This personal film is about the life of the objects she left behind.