indiewire.com is reporting Wayne Wang has decided to make his film, “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,” available online, for free, shortly after it hits theaters.

The film stars Yu Feihong, Henry O, Vida Ghahremani and Pasha Lychnikoff, and was adapted from her short story by Yiyun Li and shot on a high-end high-definition video camera.

The film was lauded by critics, such as Kim Voynar at Cinematical as being “meticulously paced and beautifully shot” while Screen International writer Patrick Z. McGavin called it “not earth-shattering or particularly urgent, though it enables a talented filmmaker to work through personal ideas about assimilation and family conflict in an open, smart and gracious way.” Todd McCarthy from film industry magazine Variety described the film as “Mainly concerned with generational and cultural issues, very modest entry possesses equally modest commercial potential.”A Thousand Years of Good Prayerswas 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.

It won the Golden Shell Award for Best Film and also Best Actor Award at the 55th San Sebastián International Film Festival.

I don’t know too much about the film but I’m excited about the online distribution and I hope this opens the door for more independent filmmakers to follow in Mr. Wangs path.

“The best kind of Wang is a free one,” I always say.