About the film
Be Water is a 2020 documentary film directed by Bao Nguyen. It premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. The film is about martial artist Bruce Lee.
It uses significant amounts of archival footage, focusing on Lee's two years in Hong Kong spent filming four feature films. It is part of ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary series and the film tackles racism in America. In a GQ interview, Nguyen talks about how this film represents protest and fits the zeitgeist, with many more Asian-American films being released as contemporaries.
From the film's Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).