WRITER-DIRECTOR
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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03 THE BLESSING2023
6 minutes, 2023, digital, color, sound
A woman struggles to make a video for her mother’s wedding across the Pacific Ocean. Grief, stress, and loneliness deconstruct the fabric of her blessing.
The film has been selected to screen at Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, FIRST International Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival, San Diego Asian Film Festival, Asian American International Film Festival, Shadow Kitchen x Coaxial Arts, and Asian Americans: A Collective Memoir x Pitzer College, Stories from Chinatown x California Humanities, Film Fest at UC Davis.
supported by Armed with A Camera x Visual Communications
sound design by David Raines
poster by Prairie T. Trivuth