{"id":62101,"date":"2024-02-23T13:50:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T04:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/23\/oscars-2024-nai-nai-wai-po-documentary"},"modified":"2024-02-23T13:50:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T04:50:39","slug":"the-taiwanese-grandmothers-who-went-from-feeling-old-and-useless-to-an-oscar-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62101","title":{"rendered":"The Taiwanese grandmothers who went from feeling \u2018old and useless\u2019 to an Oscar nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The daily lives of Chang Li hua, 86, and Yi Yan Fuei, 97, were filmed by their grandson. The result is N\u01cei Nai and W\u00e0i P\u00f3, an Oscar-nominated documentary<\/p>\n<p>The two elderly Taiwanese women are leaning in towards the Zoom screen, sitting side by side and wearing complimentary smart red outfits. In an adjoining screen their grandson, film-maker Sean Wang, sits on a couch looking slightly nervous as they speak to a dozen or so journalists in Taipei.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis feels surreal, doing a press conference with my grandmothers and seeing them answer all these questions while I\u2019m just kind of sitting here,\u201d he laughs. \u201cAnd leading up to the Oscars \u2026 I say it out loud and it doesn\u2019t feel like a real sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/23\/oscars-2024-nai-nai-wai-po-documentary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The daily lives of Chang Li hua, 86, and Yi Yan Fuei, 97, were filmed by their grandson. The result is N\u01cei Nai and W\u00e0i P\u00f3, an Oscar-nominated documentaryThe two elderly Taiwanese women are leaning in towards the Zoom screen, sitting side by side and we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2626,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,69,1604,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-film","category-oscars","category-taiwan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62111,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62101\/revisions\/62111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}