Leslie Tai worked on her creative documentary feature, How to Have an American Baby. The film is a kaleidoscopic voyage into the global shadow economy of Chinese birth tourism in Los Angeles and China. Her previous film, The Private Life of Fenfen, a multi-layered representation of a young migrant worker's video diaries, premiered at The Museum of Modern Art. Tai was awarded a Creative Capital Award in 2019. She also released a short documentary on The New York Times: Op-Docs about wealthy Chinese hiring American surrogates. The film, My American Surrogate, was made in partnership with The New York Times, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and Tribeca Film Institute.
Discipline:
Film/Video – documentary
Leslie Tai
Discipline:
Film/Video – documentary
Region: Cupertino, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2016, 2019
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Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell
How to Have an American Baby (Documentary)
Studios
Putnam
Leslie Tai worked in the Putnam studio.
The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…