Rosemead
2025 | 1h 37m | English and Mandarin Chinese, with English subtitles
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 is a New York-based cinematographer. He fell in love with black and white photography in high school, which led him to dabble in filmmaking while studying sociology and film criticism at UC Berkeley. He pursued his passion for visual storytelling at NYU's Graduate Film Program, where he earned his MFA. One of his early feature films, Bradley Rust Gray’s “The Exploding Girl”, starring Zoe Kazan, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Since then he has worked on a broad range of films, including Adam Salky’s addiction drama, “I Smile Back” (Sundance, Toronto 2015); Brett Haley's music driven dramedy, "Hearts Beat Loud (Sundance 2018); Michael Tyburski's sonically obsessed character portrait “The Sound of Silence” (Sundance 2019); and Numa Perrier’s fashion world romantic comedy “The Perfect Find” (Tribeca Audience Award winner, 2023). He also shot "Amend: the Fight for America," a hybrid six-part Netflix documentary series, hosted by Will Smith, that mixes traditional interviews with theatrical performances. He re-teamed with Bradly Rust Gray for “I’ll Be Your Mirror” (formerly “Blood”), which was awarded the "U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Uncompromising Artistic Vision” at Sundance.
In 2025, Lin was invited to join the Cinematographers Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.