Biography

Ji Strangeway is driven by the persistent, frenetic pull of the universe.

A film director, author, and poet, Strangeway creates from the margins of gender, orientation, and circumstance. Her stories ride the shoulders of the misunderstood anti-hero, exploring the crash zones between society and self, the physical and the existential.

Strangeway embraces the female-centric coming-of-age genre. Her LGBTQ short film Nune (2016) draws on the sacred bond of first love. Her unique cinematic style also emerges in her written work, Red as Blue. This hybrid-graphic novel introduces YA readers to a unique cross-genre aesthetic. As noted by AfterEllen, it's "an addictive, eclectic fusion of styles and identity that blazes a brand-new path for storytelling."

Red as Blue is about two teens struggling to transcend forbidden love in the culture-clash of the 1980s. Strangeway's portrayal of youth divided between power and love brings relevance and prophecy in this modern-day LGBTQ West Side Story on the verge of Bowling for Columbine.

Strangeway's work is an unconventional call to action. Her words are for the dreamers and the idealists. She grew up in Denver, Colorado, is Vietnamese by descent, and is a former New Yorker now based in Los Angeles.
- IMDb mini biography by: Coleen Rehm

I want to create characters that you keep dreaming about forever-that keep the iconography of an ideal alive.

Filmmaking is the hardest thing a person can do. The only thing harder than that is doing laundry.

Great Artists Don't Steal or Copy. They Create.

When there is a lot of yelling between a director and his or her 1st AD, you know there is a beautiful relationship going on.