Alice Wu

Alice Wu is an film director and screenwriter.

Alice Wu was born and raised in San Jose, California, then moved to Los Altos, California where she graduated from . In 1990, she received her in Computer Science from Stanford University. Two years later, she completed her Master's degree in Computer Science at Stanford.

Before becoming a filmmaker, Wu worked as a for Microsoft in Seattle. She then left the corporate world to pursue a filmmaking career full time.

She was quoted in the ''Hollywood Reporter'' saying that her mom dissuaded from a career in filmmaking. Her mom would say, "If you prove a theorem in math, no one can say you're wrong. If you write a book, they can choose not to read it".

Wu followed her parents' advice and pursued a career in computer science, but she never gave up on her dream and, while at Microsoft, signed up for a screenwriting class where she penned a feature script, ''Saving Face''. Encouraged by her screenwriting teacher --and to the disapproval of her family, colleagues and friends--she left Microsoft in the late '90s to try to get ''Face'' made. She gave herself a five-year window to do that.
Wu barely made it: The five-year deadline hit as she was starting production on "Face."

Wu's most noted work is her 2004 film, ''Saving Face''. It was inspired by her own experiences coming out as a lesbian in the Chinese American community. She is now working on a film based on Rachel DeWoskin's memoir ''Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China''.

In 2001, the script for ''Saving Face'' won the CAPE screenwriting award.

Wu is represented by CAA and attorney Todd Rubenstein.