UPC: 810140243881
Label: MONDO
Format: LP
Release Date: March 21, 2025
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In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family cant teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
DDI () means little brother in Mandarin. However, it is also an endearing term many Chinese parents call their younger sons: the very same words my mother used to call me, says director Sean Wang. DDI is everything I want to say now about everything I experienced then. It is an ode to the joy and chaos of adolescence, it is a thank you, Im sorry, and I love you to the immigrant mothers that raise us, and it is an examination of how it feels to learn to love yourself during a time when the world says you are unworthy of it. But more than anything, it is the movie I know my younger self would have loved to see: a coming-of-age movie set in a place I know, starring people who look like those I knew, during a moment when we are the worst versions of ourselves having the best time of our lives.
For the films effervescent score, Wang reunited with Giosu Greco, his composer for 2023s NI NAI & WI P (nominee for Best Documentary Short Film at the 96th Academy Awards). Featuring contributions from Stephen Pfeifer on contrabass and Chase Jackson on vibraphone, DDIs stirring score received rave reviews on the films way to the Audience Award at Sundance 2024.
Art direction, product design and layout for DDI were provided by Josh Manderville, with creative direction & A&R by Chelsea Taylor and label management by Cameron Dean.
TRACK LIST:
A1 Gious Greco Skating TricksA2 Giosu Greco Camo ShortsA3 Gious Greco Nai Nai BeautifulA4 Giosu Greco Not Like Most Guys <3A5 Giosu Greco Counting The DaysA6 Giosu Greco Yes,DeleteA7 Giosu Greco Stolen TracksA8 Giosu Greco What’s On Your MindB1 Gious Greco The Squirrel StoryB2 Giosu Greco Only Room For One MoreB3 Giosu Greco Have Fun In CollegeB4 Giosu Greco I’m Your Friend :)B5 Giosu Greco Running Away From HomeB6 Giosu Greco First Day of High SchoolB7 Gious Greco Didi
