Justin Chon seeks to create conversation and awareness around the complex and sobering realities of immigration in the United States with his Blue Bayou.“I thought it was so cruel and just unfathomable that you can bring a child from another country and then tell them at some point later in their life that they’re not welcome in the place they call home,” he said Sunday during Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles at the DGA Theater. “That’s why I think this film was important for me to tell.
this is always the best way – on the big screen – to build empathy.”Blue Bayou focuses on a uniquely American family fighting for their future.
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