
Sean Wang
Directing
Biography
Sean is an American filmmaker from Fremont, California. He is a Google Creative Lab 5 alum and Sundance Screenwriters & Directors Lab Fellow.
Known For

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The Kelly Clarkson Show

When a twenty-something retail clerk encounters a rising pop star, he takes the opportunity to edge his way into the in-crowd. But as the line between friend and fan blurs beyond recognition, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.
Lurker

In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
Dìdi (弟弟)

Over the course of a hot summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelinos intersect. A skating guitarist, a tagger, two wannabe rappers, an exasperated fast-food worker, a limo driver—they all weave in and out of each other's stories. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear. One of them just wants to find someplace that still serves good cheeseburgers.
Summertime

A multigenerational story celebrating director Sean Wang's two grandmothers, one on his father's side and the other on his mother's side.
Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó

Burdened by an expired visa, a young couple spend what could be their last night together.
Sunday
Follows a recently deceased young man struggling to undo his fate, as he watches the world—and his soulmate—spin on without him.
DED

A portrait of growing up told through filmmaker Sean Wang's middle school yearbook. Go Hornets.
H.A.G.S. (Have a Good Summer)

An impressionable young boy’s determination to be accepted by his older brother leads him head-on into trouble.
Warm Springs
Making of featurette on the Blu-ray release of DÌDI (弟弟) (2024)
The Making of Dìdi

On July 5th, 2016, filmmaker Sean Wang moved across the country to live and work in New York City for one year. A personal documentary of his year, chronicled by voicemails from his mother back home.
3,000 Miles

In Kaohsiung, Taiwan, a handful of residents refuse to move away from their beloved and almost completely abandoned village.