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Golden Gate Girl is one of the two extant films by a 1930s lesbian director of this ethnicity. In a 2004 film, a woman of this ethnicity named Wilhelmina assures her girlfriend that her mother doesn’t know that they have sex, instead believing they “conjugate Latin verbs” together. An actress (15[1])of this ethnicity who played the mother in that rom-com directed a film about (15[1])a “Sent-Down Girl” (15[1])that inspired the name of Jamie Stewart’s band. After the success of her film Dead Pigs, a filmmaker of this ethnicity (15[1])directed DC’s (15[1])Birds of Prey. (15[2])A director of this ethnicity (15[1])played piano (15[1])on the score of a film whose preface title card declares it is (*) “based on an actual lie.” A Canadian director of this ethnicity directed a Pixar short about a woman who cooks, and (10[1])later eats, a dish (10[1])that comes to life. (10[1])A director of this ethnicity cast her great-aunt in a film about a family (10[1])gathering in honor of their dying matriarch. For 10 points, name this ethnicity of the director of The Farewell, Lulu Wang. ■END■

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