My Tiger Mom
Concerned about where her young daughters might go to college one day, award-winning filmmaker Debbie Lum sets out to discover whether being a "tiger mother" will turn her kids into "the model minority."
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My Tiger Mom is a feature-length documentary about Asian American mothers and daughters relentlessly pursuing their greatest aspiration: getting into an elite American university. Speaking with mothers, parents, educators, counselors, and others in the educational achievement industry, the film is a captivating personal documentary about the role of parents in their children’s success. Set in the competitive high schools of the San Francisco Bay Area, it follows a recent immigrant mom from China along with other so-called "Tiger Mothers" and their daughters through a grueling college application journey that ends in either admission or rejection by the school of their dreams. Through the lens of race, culture, and motherhood, this intimate story asks: what price must we pay in our obsessive rush toward success and achievement today?