It's another episode of the Asian A.V. Club podcast series HANG! For this episode, I have to start off by saying I TOTALLY nerded out with documentary filmmaker Elizabeth Lo because her latest film Mistress Dispeller is presented in such a way that I had a long list of questions, mainly about how the heck did she make this excellent film.

The premise of Mistress Dispeller is a look at these services being offered in modern day China, in which a woman of a certain means, hires these individuals to infiltrate their family, gain the trust of the husband and eventually the 'other woman' and then manipulate the breakup of this affair. What makes this doc so compelling is that there are cameras capturing the whole experience from beginning to end, with two of the characters none the wiser on what's happening around them.

It's a surprisingly moving (and sometimes nail-biting) look at a family unit in disarray and the lessons all parties learn as they go experience the dispelling together.

I had questions. SO MANY QUESTIONS! And Lo broke down the mechanics of how she pieced this wonderful doc together.

We also talk about our common bond of growing up in Hong Kong, getting into docs in the first place, and how she took the leap from her debut studying Stray dogs in the streets of Istanbul to focusing on China in her latest film Mistress Dispeller.

It's a good HANG and I look forward to whatever dynamic storytelling Lo has up her sleeve in her future! Btw, please do us a favor and subscribe to the podcast on whatever platform you're listening to us, because we have so many fun chats coming in the next few weeks! Thanks again!