MINDING THE GAP

Director/Producer: Bing Liu
Producer: Diane Quon

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Three young men bond across racial lines to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. Ten years later, while facing adult responsibilities, unsettling revelations force them to reckon with their fathers, their mothers, and each other.

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NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY

NOMINATED FOR 2019 EMMY OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY OR NONFICTION SPECIAL

PRESIDENT OBAMA’S FAVORITE FILMS OF 2018 LIST
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PRESS

“An audacious feature debut on all levels.”

— DANIEL FIENBERG, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

“Extraordinary... Minding the Gap is an essay that never feels like an essay, an intelligent and compassionate grappling with some of the most painful issues presently haunting the body politic: toxic masculinity and domestic violence, economic depression and a deep, existential despair.”

– JUSTIN CHANG, LOS ANGELES TIMES

“With infinite sensitivity, Mr. Liu delves into some of the most painful and intimate details of his friends' lives and his own, and then layers his observations into a rich, devastating essay on race, class and manhood in 21st-century America." 

– A. O. SCOTT, THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Liu creates an unforgettable film experience that will knock the wind out of you."

– PETER TRAVERS, ROLLING STONE

"An extraordinary feat of filmmaking... Liu's intimacy with his subjects becomes contagious, to the point where their small victories are thrilling and their failures feel devastating.”

– SOPHIE GILBERT, THE ATLANTIC

"There isn't a word of explicit politics in the film, but Liu's confrontation with abuse and trauma as a way of confronting its unconscious legacy, of changing one's own behavior and improving one's own life and the lives of one's own family and friends, is an essentially and crucially political act." 

– RICHARD BRODY, THE NEW YORKER