ABOUT LILI

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.


PROJECTS

HAIRCUT

Documentary / installation | Ongoing

Don't Give Up

2024

Discarded clay trimmings, tears, underglaze, glaze

LOVE DOC

Documentary / installation | Ongoing

Fast X Double Feature

2023

Poetry reading

Photo credit: Sam Hotaling

We Don't Just Matter In Death

Documentary | 2022 | TRT 9:22

Producer, Writer, Director, Editor

BIPOC Excellence in Ultimate

Highlight Reel | 2020 | TRT 4:25

Producer, Editor

The Sky Is Red

Documentary | on hold

Producer, Writer, Director

Experiment

Experimental | 2016 | TRT 3:30

Producer, Writer, Director, Editor

All-Star Ultimate Tour: The Documentary

Documentary | 2016 | TRT 1:38:16

Associate Producer

Not Yet, But Soon

Documentary | 2015 | TRT 45:18

Producer, Writer, Director, Editor

Fly on the Wall

Documentary | 2014 | TRT 30:22

Producer, Writer, Director, Editor

What Do You Actually Feel?

Experimental | 2013 | TRT 1:41

Producer, Writer, Director, Editor

Stopstart

Narrative | 2012 | TRT 4:00

Producer, Writer, Director, Editor

For Andy

Documentary | 2012 | TRT 34:31

Producer, Writer, Director, Editor

Joel and Milo

Narrative | 2011 | TRT 4:28

Producer, Writer, Director, Editor

Two Monkeys Hugging

Narrative | 2011 | TRT 4:09

Producer, Writer, Director, Editor

Brother

Documentary | 2011 | TRT 13:14

Producer, Writer, Director, Editor

The End

Narrative | 2009 | TRT 4:19

Producer, Writer, Director, Editor

Falling and Filling

Narrative | 2009 | TRT 10:45

Producer, Writer, Director, Editor

Distance

Documentary | 2008 | TRT 3:14

Producer, Writer, Director, Editor


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(Photo credit: Sam Hotaling)