Luo Li

Luo Li is an independent film director and screenwriter. He was born and grew up in China; he studied film and obtained his MFA in Canada.

Career Li's experimental short films Fly and Ornithology garnered recognition for their use of abstract imagery; they screened internationally in festivals/galleries including Cinematheque Ontario and Images Festival (both Toronto, Ontario, Canada), the Festival de Nouveau Cinema (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), and Reyes Hecoles Gallery (Mexico City, Mexico). His work received a retrospective at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto in 2015.

Influences and style Cinemascope called him "one of the most interesting young Canadian directors on the international festival circuit, and one of the most promising Chinese independent directors to emerge in the last decade." They continued, saying: "Marked by narrative playfulness, implicitly subversive formal innovation, and elegant, beautifully crafted images, and pervaded by a remarkably gentle, unassuming confidence, his four features have already staked out something like a Luo Li universe."

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