Lloyd Lee Choi’s Directorial Debut at Cannes

How Much Lucks One Need to Make it in America? Lloyd Lee Choi’s Feature Directorial Debut “Lucky Lu” confronts the tenuous nature of achieving the American Dream, as the indie centers on an immigrant delivery messenger (Chang Chen) WHose is upended after his bike is stolen.

Choi Wrote the script as an expansion of his short film “Same Old,” Which Premiered at the 75th Cannes Film Festival in the Main Competition and Went on Tiff with A Special Jury Mention and New York Film Festive Best Short at Raindance. “Lucky Lu” Now Debuts at Cannes in Directors’ Fortnight as a Buzzy Sales Title. Indie Filmaker TURNED Marvel Moinstay Destin Daniel Cretton Produces The Feature.

The Official Logline Reads: “Lucky Lu ‘Follows a New York City Delivery Rider Whose World Upside Down and LOESS HIS ONLY SOURCE OF INCOM. Life He’s Spent All These Years Building. ” FALA CHEN AND CARABELE Manna Wei Co-Star.

“The initial idea for ‘Lucky Lu’ Came About the Height of the First Wave of the Pandemic, A Traumatic Period for Everyone,” Choi Said in a Press Statement. “As a new Yorker, i and millions of others survived off of the Services of Essential Workers… Not just for Life Saving Care, but for the Simple Yet Necussy of Being Fed Day Day while trapping in New York, the Image of A Food Driver is a pervasive is a pervasive I say day and nightmare, nameless, faceless men in hefty jackets and beat-up helmets whipping through the streets on their e-bikes. Riders are immigrants Juggling Doses of Food Orders at Once and Working Long Hours Through the Cold, Wind, and Rain. ”
Choi Continued, “Our Interactions with these harddened workrs are transient and transensional. For that split second wohen opens before they have over our food, these strangers peek into. and offen Share the Same Hopes and Dreams of Progress That We would. A World that is unforgiving and exists in near invisibly right in front of our and tan homes each day … Door or walking down the street, imagine that the man whipping past you on an e-bike is lu, an ‘essential worker,’ a regular man, a flawed human, just trying to provides for the Ones and loves. ”

Along with Cretton, “Lucky Lu” is Produced by Nina Yang Bongiovi, Asher Goldstein, Tony Yang, Ron Najor, and Jeyun Munford. The Executive Producers Include Forest Whitaker, Kevin M. Lin, Michael Y. Chow, Jason A. Lin, Bing Chen, Maggie Hsu, Nicole Tao, Clara Wu Tsai, Jamie Liin, Daphne Lee, Jennifer J. Pritzker, Van Ness Wu, D. Yang, D. and Yifan Zhai. “Lucky Lu” is a Hisako Films, Significant Productions, Cedar Road, and Big Buddha Pictures Production.

“Lucky Lu” Will Premiere at Cannes 2025 Directors’ Fortnight as a Sales Title, With Wme Handling North American Rights and Film Constellation with World. Check out the first look below.