SocDoc alumna Meloddy Gao (’24) premiered her MFA thesis film, SWIMMING LESSONS, this fall at the San Diego Asian Film Festival. Gao also screened her film at the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival.
[Taken from paff.org] SWIMMING LESSONS is a personal, reflexive film that follows a daughter of Chinese immigrants who yearns to understand her transoceanic family’s expressions of grief. During a summer visit to the home her parents left behind in Beijing, China, she tries to learn what they never taught her: how to navigate a heat wave, how to cook watermelon, and how to say goodbye.