A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

For the 2005 short story collection the film is adapted from, see A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (short story collection).
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
U.S. DVD cover
Directed byWayne Wang
Written byYiyun Li
Produced byYukie Kito
Rich Cowan
Wayne Wang
StarringFaye Yu
Henry O
Vida Ghahremani
Pasha D. Lychnikoff
CinematographyPatrick Lindenmaier
Edited byDeirdre Slevin
Music byLesley Barber
Distributed byThe Match Factory
Release date
Running time
83 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesEnglish
Mandarin
Persian

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is a 2007 American drama film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Faye Yu, Henry O, Vida Ghahremani and Pasha D. Lychnikoff. It is adapted from the short story by Yiyun Li and shot on a high-end high-definition video camera.[1]

It was made as a companion piece to The Princess of Nebraska, a 2007 film also directed by Wayne Wang and adapted from Yiyun Li’s short story.[2]

  1. ^ − "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers". Electronic Press Kit (PDF). The Match Factory GmbH. 2007.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference variety was invoked but never defined (see the help page).