Ping Pong Playa | Jessica Yu | Talks at Google
53Jessica Yu visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss her film "Ping Pong Playa." This event took place on September 8, 2008, as part of the Filmmakers@Google series.
Jessica Yu's film Ping Pong Playa tells the story of streetwise, swaggering Christopher "C-Dub" Wang: a suburban guy who waxes political on all things Asian American and clings to pro basketball pipe dreams. But when misfortune strikes his family, C-dub must overcome living at home, working a dead-end job and his worldly older brother, to run his Mom's ping pong classes and defend the family's athletic dynasty.
Jessica Yu was born in Palo Alto and attended Gunn High School. Yu won an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject for Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien. As a director, she has worked on Grey's Anatomy, The West Wing, American Dreams, and ER. Jessica states that she "entered filmmaking through the world of documentaries... Making a film like [Ping Pong Playa] was a new adventure, and as a director it was one of the most pleasurable."