This interview was conducted as part of The Advocate's interview podcast, LGBTQ&A.Alice Wu was working as a software engineer at Microsoft when she wrote the first draft of Saving Frace, the 2004 romantic comedy/drama about two queer women that starred an almost exclusively Asian and Asian-American cast.
Wu soon quit her job, moved to New York City, and did what she believed was impossible: she got the film made. After the success of Saving Face, when the film industry and fans of her work