Esther Liang Veronin

Esther Veronin (born 11 March 1987), is a Taiwanese-American director, singer, actress and CEO of entertainment startup Meimeiwawa Multimedia. She is the elder sister of singer Lara Veronin.

Career

In May 2013, Veronin and sister Lara Veronin founded Meimeiwawa Multimedia, (; "Meiwa Media" for short), an entertainment and lifestyle themed start-up that creates multimedia content. Esther, as CEO and co-founder has directed all short and long-form content produced by Meimeiwawa, including their entries in the Taipei stop of the 48-hour film project, as well as their award-winning contribution to the Tainan 39 Hour Short Film Contestival, for which they received the accolade of ‘Best Cinematography’ in 2015.

In 2015, the sisters introduced a new online web series called ‘Meiwa Diaries’ under a new concept ‘Faux reality’, which depicts snippets of their daily lives in a partly fictional manner.

One of their first international film project was "Taipei As We Know It (TAWKI), an English-language webseries set in Taipei, Taiwan touching on social issues and quirks of the sisters' homeland, Taipei.

In 2018, Veronin wrote, directed, and produced her first feature-length film, "Tomorrow's Star", which starred her sister Lara and combined the music from Lara's third solo album "Thousand-Faced Beast" into a cinematic visual album.

Performance

During mid-2014, Veronin also participated in the "Global Taiwanese songwriting and singing competition", gaining attention for her similarity in appearance to Taiwanese actress Mirandu Lu, and for her moving performance. Veronin also participated in the direction of sister Lara Veronin’s music video for her 2014 single "Dida", which was selected as the theme song for the "Fluid Sexuality International Film Festival" in 2015. Both sisters have publicly expressed their advocacy of LGBT rights.

Veronin also received glowing reviews of her performance in The LAB's stage performance of the 1966 play Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott, having been praised by the Taipei Times to "shine in the challenging lead role".

From 2014 to 2015, both Veronin sisters sang regularly at Brown Sugar, a jazz club in Taipei, where they performed a medley of both Taiwanese and Western music.

Activism Veronin is an outspoken participant in feminist and LGBT issues, having participated in many women-powered events in Taiwan. Both Veronin sisters also use Meimeiwawa Multimedia and their own popularity as platforms to raise awareness on various social issues via mediums such as events, music videos, short films, and movies.

Most recently in 2019, Esther and Lara were both named as spokespeople and partners to the in their campaign against sexual violence of "Only Yes Means Yes".

Personal life On 29 May 2015, Veronin's mother died after collapsing from a cardiac stress test.

Filmography As CEO and Co-founder of Meimeiwawa, Veronin also takes on the roles of screenwriting, directing, editing, and producing various visual content put forth by the company. The genres of such visual content range from short films to music videos and even a feature film. + Short Film Year Role English title Chinese title Note 2013 Writer-director 《Taipei As We Know It "TAWKI"》 《台北據我們所知》 Comedy short film 2014 Writer-director 《Who Killed Joanna Wang?》 《誰殺了王若琳》 Best Soundtrack & Costume in 48 Hour Film Project Taipei 2015 Writer-director 《She Wore Red》 《紅》 Best Cinematography in the Tainan 39-Hour Short Film Contestival Executive Producer 《Still Better Than Love 》 《比真愛還好》 Official selection for the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Writer-director 《Meiwa Diaries》 《妹娃日記》 Faux reality web series2016 Writer-director 《Taipei As We Know It》 《台北據我們所知》 Mini short film series Writer-director 《Newbie Dad》 《那些被罵後才知道的事》 Collaboration with the National Development Council (Republic of China)

+ Feature Film Year Role English title Chinese title Genre 2018 Writer-director 《Tomorrow's Star》 《明日之星》 Cinematic Visual Album

+ Music Video Year Role English title Chinese title Artist 2015 Writer-director 《Dida》 《滴答》 Lara Liang 2016 Writer-director 《Where Do We Go》 Lara Liang 2017 Writer-director 《Play/Turn》 《玩轉》 Lara Liang2018 Writer-director 《Watch Out》 《蹦蹦蹦》 Lara Liang Writer-director 《Tomorrow's Star》 《明日之星》 Lara Liang Writer-director 《Precious Pain》 《最愛的痛》 Lara Liang Writer-director 《No Absolutes》 《沒有絕對》 Lara Liang Writer-director 《Thousand-Faced Beast》 《千面獸》 Lara Liang