WRITER-DIRECTOR
Ziyao Liu is a writer-director based on Earth.
She creates character-driven narratives of hybrid genres, often about women. 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.
selected screenings
2025 Film Fest x UC Davis
2024 Stories from Chinatown x California Humanities
2023 Shadow Kitchen x Coaxial Arts Foundation
2023 A Collective Memoir x Pitzer College
2022 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
2022 FIRST International Film Festival
2022 Asian American International Film Festival
2022 San Diego Asian Film Festival
2022 St. Louis International Film Festival
supported by Armed with A Camera x Visual Communications
sound design by David Raines
poster by Prairie Tanpitcha Trivuth