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Lili Gu (she/her) is a West Coast-based filmmaker, poet, and aspiring mixed media artist. She is passionate about exploring justice, liberation, and the human condition through storytelling. Her projects work to uncover language away from the white gaze, speaking truth to power on themes of Chinese American assimilation, queerness, and intergenerational strength. She makes art as an act of love—toward visions of an imagined future in which all humans can not just survive, but thrive.
Lili trained under the mentorship of pioneering vérité documentarian Marina Goldovskaya. She has been the recipient of the Mary Pickford Award, the Adobe Production Premium Award, the Hollywood Post Alliance Scholarship, the Edie and Lew Wasserman Film Production Fellowship, and the Edna and Yu-Shan Han Endowed Award, among others. Her films have received numerous festival accolades, screening internationally and on television networks such as PBS.
Documentary / installation | Ongoing
2024
Discarded clay trimmings, tears, underglaze, glaze
Documentary / installation | Ongoing
Documentary | 2022 | TRT 9:22
Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
Highlight Reel | 2020 | TRT 4:25
Producer, Editor
Documentary | on hold
Producer, Writer, Director
Experimental | 2016 | TRT 3:30
Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
Finalist, Sight of Sound International Film Competition (2016)
Featured on the Dallas-area PBS television show Frame of Mind (2016)
Official Selection, First Friday Film Festival (2016)
Official Selection, Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Independientes (2017)
Official Selection, NXMW Micro-Budget Film Festival (2017)
Official Selection, Silk Road International Film Festival (2017)
Official Selection, Cine City (2017)
Official Selection, International Peace and Film Festival (2017)
Documentary | 2016 | TRT 1:38:16
Associate Producer
Documentary | 2015 | TRT 45:18
Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
Documentary | 2014 | TRT 30:22
Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
Experimental | 2013 | TRT 1:41
Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
Narrative | 2012 | TRT 4:00
Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
Official Selection, UCLA Film Festival (2013)
Documentary | 2012 | TRT 34:31
Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
Best Documentary, UCLA Film Festival (2013)
Narrative | 2011 | TRT 4:28
Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
Narrative | 2011 | TRT 4:09
Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
Documentary | 2011 | TRT 13:14
Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
Narrative | 2009 | TRT 4:19
Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
Narrative | 2009 | TRT 10:45
Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
Documentary | 2008 | TRT 3:14
Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
Hugo Fellows Reading, 05/2023
Sin The Fields interview, 7/2020
DiscNW's The Greatest interview, 11/2019
The Ultimate Podcast interview, 01/2019
The Upline Cut interview, 11/2017
Skyd Magazine essay, 11/2017
NPR photography feature, 04/2015
(Photo credit: Sam Hotaling)