Yang Liu(LXXI)

Yang Liu (nickname: Lizzy) is an accomplished producer and director based in Los Angeles, California. She also serves as a jury member at Hollywood Gold Award Film Festival. Yang graduated from Emerson College majoring in Film and Media Art with an MFA degree. Before that, she has received her BFA degree at Beijing Film Academy, the top one ranking film school in Asia. Through the global film production studies from China to the US, she has built solid theoretical and practical experiences with a deep insight into the international film market. Working as the Creative Executive at Starlight Media Inc., she supervised Indie Film, Documentary, and Animation departments. She was also in charge of the "Stars Collective" program as the Executive Officer of North America, which is for supporting and funding BIPOC and female filmmakers.

Yang has produced and directed many award-winning films in the past, including A Matter of Time, World Without End, and Tessellation. Her work has been nominated and won several prestigious international film festivals, such as LA Shorts (Oscar, BAFTA qualified), Holly Shorts (Oscar qualified), WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, and New York City Independent Film Festival. Besides, she worked closely with Academy Award winner Donna Gigliotti and Academy Award nominee Diane Quon to produce an award-winning documentary Wuhan Wuhan. She is working as a co-producer for a feature film Nezouh that was funded by the British Film Institute and Film 4; directed by Soudade Kaadan, the winner of the Sundance Film Festival and Venice Film Festival.