Jon M. Chu's memoir 'Viewfinder' traces his journey to making movies
2024-07-31 · 9 min · 7 entities
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Before he was the director behind films like Crazy Rich Asians , In the Heights and Wicked , Jon M. Chu was a teenager in Los Altos, California, playing around with a camera and working at his parents' Chinese restaurant. That's the journey behind his new memoir, Viewfinder . And in today's episode, he speaks with another kid from Los Altos – NPR's Ailsa Chang – about how his parents' attitude towards assimilation shaped his upbringing and how they ended up supporting his dreams of making movies.
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