“Sorry for the Inconvenience” By Jane Chow

In Los Angeles Chinatown, a lonely teenager tries to help her parents keep their seafood restaurant afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic. Between chopping green beans and packing takeout orders, she attempts to hang on to a semblance of normalcy by studying for her driver’s permit and prepping for her high school Zoom theater debut in “The Tempest”.

Los Angeles Chinatown has always been a special place to me. Having grown up in Hong Kong and moved to America without family or citizenship, I found pieces of home in Chinatown, learning about the immigrants who came before me. But over the past year, the Chinatown community has faced increasing hardship, largely because of racism surrounding COVID-19. On top of that, developers have been gentrifying the neighborhood for years, pushing out legacy businesses and low-income residents. With this film, I wanted to humanize the families behind these small businesses and show their fight to stay afloat.

Jane Chow - Writer, Director

Credits

Written and Directed by Jane Chow
Starring: Caitlin Cheung, Alice Ko, and Jim Lau
Produced by Jane Chow and Peter Rafe
DP: Oscar Martinez
Composer: Tav Bartlett
UPM, DIT: Enyi Zhu
1st AC, Gaffer: Jasper Qiu
Production Sound Mixer: Sandra Joen Pérez-Tejeda
Editors: Jane Chow, Peter Rafe
Color, Sound Design: Jane Chow
Visual Effects: Peter Rafe

Hey filmmakers! Have a project of your own you’d like us to check out?