Rosemead
2025 | 1h 37m | English and Mandarin Chinese, with English subtitles
Feature Film
February 7 at 1:00 PM
Starring:
Lucy Liu, Lawrence Shou, Orion Lee, Jennifer Lim, Madison Hu, James Chen.
Set in the heart of the San Gabriel Valley and based on a harrowing true story, Rosemead is a gripping, emotionally charged portrait of a mother’s love pushed to its limits. Lucy Liu delivers a transformative performance as a terminally ill Chinese immigrant who uncovers her teenage son's disturbing fixation with mass shootings. As her health deteriorates, she takes increasingly desperate — and morally complex — measures to protect him and confront the darkness he’s drawn to.
Urgent and unflinching, Rosemead wrestles with themes of identity, mental health, and the immigrant experience in America, capturing the dissonance between cultural expectation and personal crisis. At a time when questions around gun violence, parenting and belonging feel more pressing than ever, this powerful film resonates deeply, offering a rare and necessary lens into the quiet tragedies unfolding in communities too often overlooked.
—Nancy Lefkowitz.
Summary
Eric Lin (林文德) - It was while majoring in sociology and film studies at UC Berkeley that director Eric Lin decided to dive into the world of filmmaking. Now, he is best known for his cinematography work on the critically acclaimed THE EXPLODING GIRL (Oscilloscope), THE SOUND OF SILENCE (IFC Films), HOUSE OF SPOILS (Amazon Studios), I SMILE BACK (Broad Green), and HEARTS BEAT LOUD (Gunpowder & Sky), which premiered at prestigious film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, and Toronto. Early in his filmmaking days, Lin’s own New York University MFA short documentary, MUSIC PALACE, gained notice and played at influential festivals such as Telluride and New Directors/New Films. ROSEMEAD marks Lin’s feature directorial debut.
About the Filmmaker:
Marilyn Fu(傅世晏) is a writer on Peacock’s espionage thriller series, THE COPENHAGEN TEST, executive produced by James Wan and starring Simu Liu. She wrote the pilot for the Will Packer/Roma Downey-produced THE BAXTERS on Amazon Prime. In features, she wrote THE HONOR LIST, released by Lionsgate, and THE SISTERHOOD OF NIGHT, based on a Steven Millhauser story, for which she won an award at Tribeca. Fu wrote and co-produced a sold-out run of her play BREATHER, which premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. In 2017, the Tracking Board named her one of the Top 100 New Writers in Hollywood on the Young and Hungry List. Marilyn was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University's School of the Arts.
About the Screenwriter:
Mynette Louie (雷敏妮) is a Spirit Award-winning, Emmy and Critics’ Choice-nominated producer. Her credits include Suzanne Andrews Correa’s Sundance 2026 selection THE HUNTRESS starring Adriana Paz, Eric Lin's Tribeca 2025 selection and Locarno Prix du Public UBS audience award winner ROSEMEAD (Vertical) starring Lucy Liu, Heidi Ewing’s Sundance-winning, Spirit/Ariel/GLAAD-nominated I CARRY YOU WITH ME (Sony Pictures Classics), Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ Tribeca-winning, Gotham/Critics Choice-nominated SWALLOW (IFC Films & Mubi), Jennifer Fox’s Golden Globe/Emmy/Critics Choice/Spirit/Gotham-nominated THE TALE (Sundance / HBO), Aaron Katz's GEMINI (SXSW / NEON), Karyn Kusama’s THE INVITATION (SXSW / Drafthouse & Netflix), Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz's Spirit Award-winning LAND HO! (Sundance / Sony Pictures Classics), and many more. Louie serves on The Academy’s Producers Branch Executive Committee and Film Independent’s Board of Directors, and is a member of Producers United. She was named one of Business Insider’s “12 Movie Producers at the Top of Their Game to Watch in 2020 and Beyond,” Ted Hope’s “21 Brave Thinkers of Truly Free Film,” and Indiewire’s “100 Filmmakers to Follow on Twitter.” Louie is also a professor and co-head of Creative Producing at Columbia University’s graduate film school. A native New Yorker, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University, where she studied Chinese literature and film.