Director's Works
Anne and Rudy Gold are a husband-wife directing duo. They met while attending ArtCenter College of Design where Rudy received his second BFA and Anne obtained her MFA. Rudy was born and raised in Los Angeles. His tumultuous childhood made him a person with lots of stories to tell. The grit of the city made him relentless at achieving his goals. Rudy has great interests in Hinduism and practices mediation and mindful living. Anne is from Beijing and grew up in a traditional Chinese family. Watching classic Hollywood films with her grandma planted a seed of storytelling in her. She left home at 17 for England to pursue her filmmaking dream. Anne later came to Los Angeles to continue developing her craft as a screenwriter and director. Anne and Rudy love working with animals and children. They believe storytelling should come from within. With their different life experiences, they approach filmmaking and conveying human emotions from a unique and intimate perspective.
As writers, we believe in bringing a piece of us onto the screen. Chele is inspired by Rudy's childhood so the story is a very special and personal one. It's fundamentally about the relationship between a first-generation child and his immigrant mother. It's also about the sentiment of an innocent boy who is forced to grow up and deal with real life. It expresses a universal emotion of alienation, feeling not belong and the loneliness that we experience as we grow up.