It’s been nearly 15 years since Alice Wu’s feature debut Saving Face hit select theaters. Now she’s back with the new Netflix feature, The Half Of It, and it proves the industry is lucky to have her back as a filmmaker who’s willing to make bold choices with a familiar genre format to effectively reinforce that there’s no one right way to love. The movie stars Leah Lewis as Ellie Chu. She’s an extremely bright high school student who isn’t much of a social butterfly. In fact, Ellie’s interaction with her peers …

This might be one of my favorite phone interviews that I've ever had the privilege of doing. Not only is writer-director Alice Wu's journey from first feature to second quite inspiring, but I also greatly appreciated how she challenged my thoughts and questions throughout. That turned our planned 20-minute interview into a 40-minute conversation so that means you're getting more than one piece on Wu's journey and her new Netflix movie, The Half Of It! Leah Lewis leads the film as Ellie, a super smart high school student who keeps to herself for …