Sundance Success

Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet, a fresh retelling of the classic comedy of errors directed by Ang Lee, sold out three screenings at Sundance and Ahn ’08 was a featured director at the festival’s Film Church. “This is my second Sundance debut—the first one being Spa Night,” Ahn shared. The original Wedding Banquet was one of the first Hollywood films to center Asian characters while telling the story of a queer couple. Ahn’s adaptation, in theaters April 18, adds a new dynamic: a lesbian couple and a gay couple who are close friends. “This film was meant to be a celebration of found family,” Ahn says. There’s much of himself embedded. “Though the wedding in the original film was Chinese, the wedding we designed was Korean. In a way, it almost felt like I got to have my Korean wedding,” he adds. “It was important for me to make space for queer voices within deep-rooted cultural traditions.”