Twelve-year-old Adeline Tang struggles to navigate America’s adult playground and keep her mother’s gambling under control, all for the promise of that perfect family Christmas holiday once her father arrives. But as the days unfold, Adeline realizes that growing up might not hold all the excitement she’d been hoping for.

This film was a finalist for the 2017 HBO APA Visionaries Short Film Competition, and premiered at the 2017 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.

Tiffanie Hsu

Tiffanie Hsu is a writer and director whose short film WONDERLAND was a finalist in the HBO APA Visionaries Short Film Competition. The feature adaptation recently participated in the Sundance and Film Independent Screenwriters Labs. Her feature documentary, WATERSCHOOL premiered at Sundance and is currently streaming on Netflix. Hsu is an alumna of AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women. She has a BA from Harvard and an MFA in Directing and Screenwriting from UCLA, where she received the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. She is currently writing/directing STRINGS, a musical romantic comedy about a violin virtuoso, and developing a series based on the SF Spider Man thief.