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Ziyao Liu is a writer-director based on Earth. 

She creates character-driven narratives of hybrid genres. Her goal is to reveal characters’ strengths and weaknesses in everyday moments and reimagine their lives that are otherwise constrained by reality. She loves to find humor in the absurdity of our existence beyond language and cultural barriers. 

A member of BAFTA Connect and a fellow of Armed with a Camera, she earned her MFA in Directing from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her BA in Film from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

Born in China and now a resident alien in Los Angeles, she spends her free time tending her plants and walking in her neighborhood. 


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02 DAISY IS GONE
2024

13 minutes, 2024, digital, color, soundAn absurdist sci-fi with comedic overtones, Daisy is Gone follows an anthrophobic Chinese poet, Meng, as he tries to return a cloned Goldfish, which he believes to be a botched imposter of his lost pet and best friend.


2025 Brooklyn Film Festival 
2024 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (Special Jury Recognition)
2024 Houston Asian American Pacific Islander Film Festival 
2024 API Film Night x UCLA
2024 8th Jia Village Short Film Festival (China)
2024 FIRST Fantastic Film Festival (China)
2024 Silicon Valley Asian Pacific Film Festival 
2024 St. Louis International Film Festival

producers: Sophie Changhui Shi, Joyce Yueyi Xing 
writer, director, editor: Ziyao Liu
production designer: Prairie Tanpitcha Trivuth
sound designer: Sam Wenrui Fan
composer: Moni Guo