Festival 2023
Fictions
Canada, 2022
Short Form
Directed by
Alice Charlie Liu
Alice Charlie Liu
Running time
12 mins
12 mins
Jessie, a Chinese Canadian photography student takes on a self-portraiture assignment. After discovering the work of Cindy Sherman, she is torn to reflect on her own shifting identity and artistic voice, while juggling her role as a daughter to meet her her mother’s expectations.
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Director Bio
Alice Charlie Liu is a writer and director based between Toronto and New York. Her work often touches on themes of diaspora, East Asian culture and female identity. She is an alumnus of TIFF Next Wave and Telluride Film Festival’s Student Symposium and a previous 2019 Tribeca Film Institute Film Fellow.