Documentary Concept Development
I first learned about Simmone from a friend. Simmone is the fifth wife of my friend’s great grandfather. Simmone Kuo, in her 70s, owns a 30-year-old Tai-Chi studio in SF Chinatown. After moving to San Francisco, my partner and I have already paid several visits to Simmone’s Tai-Chi studio and started filming for this documentary. Every Sunday noon, she cooks for us. We sit together in one of the typical cramped living room in Chinatown, eating as she tells us all her stories.
She was only 21 when she married Master Kuo Lien Ying, who was at that time a well-known Taichi master and also a politician whose name appeared quite often on newspapers. Master Kuo was 40 years older than her. He taught her everything
I first learned about Simmone from a friend. Simmone is the fifth wife of my friend’s great grandfather. Simmone Kuo, in her 70s, owns a 30-year-old Tai-Chi studio in SF Chinatown. After moving to San Francisco, my partner and I have already paid several visits to Simmone’s Tai-Chi studio and started filming for this documentary. Every Sunday noon, she cooks for us. We sit together in one of the typical cramped living room in Chinatown, eating as she tells us all her stories.
She was only 21 when she married Master Kuo Lien Ying, who was at that time a well-known Taichi master and also a politician whose name appeared quite often on newspapers. Master Kuo was 40 years older than her. He taught her everything