BIOGRAPHIE

[EN] Charlie Hao is a Chinese filmmaker working between Los Angeles and Shanghai. Raised in the rapidly shifting urban landscape of Shenzhen, she studied at the University of the Arts London and later earned her MFA in Film Directing from Shanghai Theatre Academy, followed by graduate studies in film production at New York Film Academy in Los Angeles. Drawing from her own experiences of cultural displacement and queer desire, Charlie’s films often center women in states of in-betweenness, emotionally, geographically, or relationally. Her work rejects narrative closure, favoring emotional rupture, poetic logic, and the psychological textures of feminine interiority. In her latest short Peony Fever, she reframes a 16th-century Chinese opera through a contemporary queer lens, tracing a diasporic woman’s obsessive attachment to another woman she may have only imagined. Through fragmentation, repetition, and a refusal to explain, Charlie continues to explore new cinematic forms for expressing female desire, illusion, and loss.

FILMOGRAPHIE

• 2025 Peony Fever Réalisation, Production, Référent(e), Vente, Scénario, Montage