A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Carol Liu was born and raised in Los Angeles and spent her formative summers in China. She graduated from Stanford University, where she was a Chappell-Lougee Scholar, with a degree in creative writing. She received her MFA in writing and directing from New York University’s Graduate Film Program, where she was awarded several distinctions, including the Dalio Family Foundation Scholarship for Excellence, Tisch Scholarship, and Alan Landsburg Documentary Production Award. While studying Classical Chinese and Modern Chinese Literature at Tsinghua University’s IUP language program, she produced her first feature project, Restoring the Light. The film has been presented at the United States Embassy in China, the World Health Organization, the Chinese Ministry of Health, the United States Consulate General’s Residence Special Dinner in Northeast China, and at various universities in China and the United States, among other venues. Restoring the Light has also toured international film festivals, receiving nominations for Best Documentary Feature at the Hawaii International Film Festival and the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, and was an official selection of the Beijing International Film Festival and United Nations Association Film Festival. Carol is currently based in Beijing, China, where she is writing and developing Chinese-language fiction film projects.
Director:
2011 Restoring the Light
Producer:
2011 Restoring the Light
2020 Visible
Writer:
2011 Restoring the Light
2020 Visible
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At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.