LACFF LGBTQ SHOWCASE Q&A SESSION

Have you watched our LGBTQ virtual showcase yet?

Join us JAN 30th at 7:00 p.m. PST for a Q&A session with fantastic directors behind these four entries:  ️

Kaixuan Wang, director of We Outlaws

Olivia Liu, director of The last Lesbian

Hsin-Ying, director of SHe

Jordan Wong, director of Mom’s clothes

Damien Lu will serve as the moderator of the Q&A event. Damien Lu received his Ph.D. from UCLA and currently works as the President of Information Clearinghouse for Chinese Gays & Lesbians.

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About the Directors

Kaixuan Wang

Director of We Outlaws

Kaixuan Wang is the director of We Outlaws (Winner: Best Chinese-Language Film, 1st Global University Students Film Festival; Best Film, 2019 Shanghai Pride Film Festival), and has also served as the Assistant Director of the Fengshen trilogy and Blossoms.

Olivia Liu

Director of The last Lesbian

Olivia Liu received her M.F.A in Film and TV Directing from Chapman University where she was taught by Martha Coolidge, the former chairman of the Director Guild of America (DGA). She worked for Academy Award-winning producer Ron Yerxa. Olivia’s films were selected by acclaimed film festivals including Shanghai International Film Festival, the Golden Reel Award, and European Independent Film Festival, among others. She directed A Big River, a documentary film produced and released by China Central Television (CCTV). Currently, she is directing “Unqualified" Mothers, a documentary feature film about female reproductive rights in China.

Kuo Hsin-Ying

Director of SHe

Born in 1988, Kuo Hsin-Ying was a student in the Department of Radio and Television at National Cheng-Chi University. Her manifesto is to question and problematize the norms of the world. "For me, it would be ideal that one day LGBT is not an issue any more but a term that simply addresses sexual orientations of people. Everyone in the world can be so unique. It is my goal to ask for a necessity of highlighting and understanding those unmarked and unrecognized in the society—we cannot assume something as not existing simply because we are not aware of it."

Jordan Wong

Director of Mom’s clothes

Jordan Wong is a Chinese-American experimental nonfiction filmmaker whose work pursues emotional honesty. His practice explores concepts of escapism, loss of control, struggling to remain present, and our inability to communicate with one another. Drawing on autobiographical experiences, his works engage rules, repetition, trauma, and efforts to create a queer lens through which to view the world. His films have screened internationally, including DOK Leipzig, NewFest, Animafest Zagreb, Japan Media Arts Festival, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival, where he was recently awarded the Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker for the film Mom’s Clothes. 

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About the Event Moderator

Damien Lu

Damien Lu received his Ph.D. from UCLA and currently works as the President of Information Clearinghouse for Chinese Gays & Lesbians. Damien started to work with the Asian LGBTQ community in the 1980s and hosted one of the first Internet-based forum for gay Asian people from around the world. In 1998, he joined the newly founded Aibai.cn, which provides vital information for Chinese speaking LGBTQ community worldwide.