About this Video
“In a makeshift market in Anhui China, an 85-year-old Grandpa treats every penny like a high-stakes battlefield, all to fund his gracious top-secret mission: giving his grand-daughter the best breakfast in town."
Creator
Merry May Ma
Creator
Hailed from Shanghai, Merry May Ma is a writer/director based in Los Angeles. As a mushroom-lover dedicated to telling tactile and uplifting stories, she hopes to inspire audiences to “see more, hear more, and feel more” (Sontag, 1964). Her UCLA MFA thesis film, GARDENERS, won the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant and Panavision New Filmmaker Grant. GARDENERS explores how seemingly unrelated things, like nano-science and mushrooms, are deeply connected.