Leslie Tai
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Tribeca All Access® 2017
About
Leslie is a Chinese-American filmmaker from San Francisco. Her award-winning shorts have premiered at Tribeca, MoMA, IDFA, and Visions du Réel. Leslie spent five years making films in the New Documentary Film Movement in China. She is a Fulbright Scholar and holds an M.F.A. in Documentary Film from Stanford University.
How to Have An American Baby
There is a city in Southern California that is teeming with pregnant women from China. How to Have An American Baby is a kaleidoscopic voyage, told through multiple perspectives, into the booming shadow economy of Chinese birth tourism that has taken over the Chinese enclaves of Los Angeles County.