You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to make movies, but writer-director Lloyd Lee Choi almost became one on the path to his feature debut, “Lucky Lu,” premiering May 19 at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes.
“I got into Ryerson University for aerospace engineering at 17, and was on the verge of going, but at the last minute I sort of had an existential crisis,” Choi reveals. “I think a lot of Asian-American kids and kids of immigrants [like me] can relate. It would’ve been a very safe, comfortable life, but it didn’t feel right at all, so I applied to a liberal arts school in Vancouver and ended
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