BIOGRAPHY
Liselle Mei is a director, producer and writer. An honours graduate of New York University’s film school, her first film, Ana: Portrait in Days screened at New York’s Lincoln Centre, winning best film and direction at NYU’s First Run Film Festival, best short at the Empire State Awards and a Student Academy Award nomination. For her narrative series, Lower East Side Stories, Liselle was honoured with the prestigious New York Women in Film Award (NYWIFT), screening her series at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and later airing nationwide in America on PBS’s Real NY series WNET/Thirteen. Her cinema feature documentary, Love Opera screened in Cannes Cinephiles with critical media acclaim and was voted by audiences as best feature documentary at the Australian Screen Industry Awards 2021. Liselle has a NYFA fellowship in screenwriting. Her credits include Seeing Red (winner of the Grand Jury screenplay award at the Asia Pacific Film Festival) and Red Earth (finalist at the Asian American screenplay competition). Her short stories, The Right Question and Suddenly Loud were recently published in Stories from the Heart Anthology 2020 and Sex and Gender anthology, The Lighthouse 2021.
Liselle also works as a photographer specialising in hand made lith prints. She recently won the Gordon Undy Mono Award for her print, Jali.
AWARDS
Australian Screen Industry Network award for Best Feature Documentary
Urban Artist Initiative Award, New York
Grand Jury Prize, C3 market of Asia Pacific Film Festival
Berlinale Talent Campus selection for emerging filmmakers
IFP market short film finalist
New York Foundation of the Arts fellowship award for screenwriting
Jerome Foundation Media Arts Award
New York Women In Film Finishing Fund Award 27th Asian American Screenplay Competition finalist Quarter finalist at the 11th Annual Writer's Network Screenplay competition National finalist for the Student Academy Awards Empire State Award for Best Experimental short
1st place Wasserman Award for best film, NYU First Run Film festival
NYU Directing craft Award
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