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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 of this ethnicity who played the mother in that rom-com directed a film about a “Sent-Down Girl” 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 Birds of Prey. (15[2])A director of this ethnicity played piano 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 later eats, a dish (10[1])that comes to life. A director of this ethnicity cast her great-aunt in a film about a family 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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