00:00I think that everyone has lost someone, everyone can relate to loss, and that's why the film is about loss.
00:04We really wanted to focus on loss, because it's something that I think every human being has experienced.
00:21We actually knew we wanted to focus on an immigrant's life.
00:24A lot of the frontline workers, a lot of these essential workers,
00:28in certain jobs were immigrants, and they weren't treated the best,
00:31or they had to keep working because they had to pay the rent.
00:42We had the New York State lockdown with the pandemic.
00:44This could be something very intriguing to dive a little bit deeper into the emotions
00:49of what people have been going through, or will go through,
00:51for the next few months, a year. We had no idea at that time.
00:58I think the biggest challenge in the beginning was,
01:22how are we going to find a graveyard that can resemble New York City?
01:26In the middle of the pandemic, because things were so bad,
01:29there was no place we can actually get a cemetery.
01:41Cemetery scene was shot up in Wyndham, New York.
01:43It was one of Dennis's friends, actually.
01:46He has acres of land upstate.
01:48So we asked, they said, hey, can we come upstate and dig a bunch of holes
01:53and create a cemetery in your backyard and bring a 50-person cast and crew with us?
01:58And luckily, he said yes.
01:59But I mean, we had excavators, major machinery,
02:02just building this massive cemetery.
02:05Initially, it was supposed to be only 20 holes.
02:07And then we started seeing, and we're like,
02:09visually, finally putting all these pieces together.
02:11This has to be triple the size.
02:13And we got to work, and then 48 hours later,
02:16nonstop digging, creating, and manipulating these holes was exciting.
02:23So what's beautiful about LALAC is that it's not a film about COVID.
02:42So the COVID elements are there, the masks and whatnot.
02:45But COVID is just a tool that's driving the story.
02:47It's in the background.
02:48It's really about a relationship between a father and a daughter.
02:52And how they're dealing with a loss.
02:55And I think that's what makes it unique.
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