Trailer for Oscar-Nominated Short ‘Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó’ About Grannies
by Alex Billington
January 26, 2024
Source: YouTube
“Today we dance!” Disney has unveiled the official trailer for an acclaimed short doc film titled Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó, made by filmmaker Sean Wang. This is a huge month for Wang, who not only received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Short for this film, he also just premiered his feature debut Didi at Sundance, where it also won the prestigious Audience Award. He’s breaking out in a big way! Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó is a personal love letter from director Sean Wang to his Nai Nai and Wài Pó, a grandma super team that dances, stretches, and farts their sorrows away. It originally premiered at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival. “Introducing: my Nǎi Nai (奶奶) & Wài Pó (外婆). I hope you love them as much as I love them.” Starring Chang Li Hua and Yi Yan Fuei. This will be streaming on Disney+ next month right before the Oscars – where it might just end up winning. This looks absolutely amazing – yeah looking forward to watching soon.
Here’s the official trailers (+ clip / poster) for Sean Wang’s doc Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó, direct from YouTube:
And here’s a nice video of the film’s team celebrating the Oscar nomination when it was initially announced:
Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Short film, Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó is a personal love letter from first generation Taiwanese-American director Sean Wang, to his Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó (Grandma & Grandma). This multigenerational story follows this grandma super team that dances, stretches and farts their sorrows away. As the first installment of the “People & Places” relaunch, Walt Disney’s Academy Award-winning documentary short film series from the 1950s and 1960s. Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó is a short film directed by Taiwanese-American filmmaker Sean Wang, director of a number of other short films, making his feature debut with the film Dìdi playing at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival this month. It’s produced by Sam A. Davis and Malcolm Pullinger. This short first premiered at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival last year. Disney will release Wang’s Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó short streaming on Disney+ starting on February 9th, 2024.
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