Sandra has always had difficulty with her family. Growing up with 1st generation immigrant parents in Malibu California in the 70s was bad enough - but make the mother German, the father Chinese, and their only common ground a desire to fight and you'll ruin anyone's childhood.

Now, 10 years after her mother's death, Sandra's father has decided to get a mail order bride from China. All the pain and difficulty from her past is unearthed and Sandra has to confront the possibility that this new woman will become a part of her family.

Using HiDef documentary footage of the real life Sandra and Super 8 recreations of home movies, My Father's Chinese Wife explores memory, the past, and family in an inventive and touching way.

Adapted from The Pushcart prize-winning short story and acclaimed one woman show from national radio personality Sandra Tsing Loh.

My Father's Chinese Wife was shot over a week in and around Los Angeles during the summer of 2005 and late spring 2006, but the story origin began over a decade earlier with Sandra Tsing Loh's short story: My Father's Chinese Wives. The story went on to win the Pushcart prize for short fiction and was incorporated into Sandra's critically acclaimed one-woman show "Aliens in America." The play and story have been read in college English classes, performed on both coasts and heard on public radio international through Ira Glass's This American Life across the country.

The process of adaptation took nearly 8 months and the film went into production in late July. Working with a tight budget the production was able to maximize resources and bring to life a story that encompasses 25 years, over a half-dozen locations and several wildly different shooting formats. The choice to incorporate interview footage, recreated Super 8 movie clips and 35mm was bold, but it's one the filmmakers stand behind. We've gone beyond the blending of fact and fiction with this film to establish a new way to experience Sandra's story through two narrative threads which influence and inform the other.