BIOGRAPHIE

Lydia Rui is an award-winning Chinese Australian writer-director based in the UK. She won the 2020 Flickerfest Emerging Female Filmmaker Award and has been Australian Directors Guild Award nominated twice. She is a recent MA of Directing Fiction NFTS graduate, with support from the Screen Australia Enterprise and Ian Potter Cultural Trust Fund. She grew up between mainland China, Hong Kong, Australia, and Singapore, before graduating with a BFA in Film & TV from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. At the age of 23, she travelled through North America and Europe as the videographer for Beyoncé’s Mrs. Carter World Tour. Her short films have screened at Oscar and BAFTA-qualifying festivals such as Tribeca Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, Flickerfest International Short Film Festival, DOC NYC, and been Vimeo Staff Picked. Cross-cultural representation and a love for the empathic power of cinematic storytelling remains at the forefront of her work.

FILMOGRAPHIE

• 2022 VIRILE Director, Referent, Script, Script
• 2021 Beneath the Roses Director, Script, Script
• 2021 Nome And the Worm Director
• 2021 Prom Night Director, Production, Referent, Sales, Script, Script
• 2018 This Perfect Day Director, Referent, Sales, Script, Editing, Script, Editing
• 2014 I'm Not Done Editing, Editing
• 2013 Bon Appétit Editing, Editing