Filmmaker Iris K. Shim talks about collaborating with Sandra Oh and Sam Raimi on her supernatural terror tale.
“I had never seen her in a movie like this,” says the director.
As soon as she understood that element of the story, she was excited about the film."
Sandra Oh in ‘Umma’.Saeed Adyani/Sony Pictures
Ummais Shim’s directorial debut and is produced bySpider-ManandEvil DeadfilmmakerSam Raimi.
“His producing partner, Zainab Azizi, got the script first,” says Shim.
“She really connected to the script on a personal level, and she brought it to Sam.
Iris K. Shim.Unique Nicole/Getty
Shim grew up in Chicago without much encouragement to become a filmmaker.
But it was always something I gravitated towards.”
“That was something that I could brag to my parents about,” she says.
“Hey, look, a Jackie Chan movie!
They were very excited about that.”
“In the fall of 2020, we decided to shoot in LA instead.
Despite the fact that we were shooting in COVID, there was a really lovely energy on set.”
“That is true,” she says with a laugh.
“Sometimes I feel bad that I made this movie!”
Watch the trailer forUmmabelow.
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