Jessica Liu a filmmaker raised between Shanghai & the Bay Area with a playful and refreshing storytelling style. She explores desire and longing in repressed characters.

Her films have been selected at Academy qualifying film festivals - Cinequest, San Francisco Independent Film Festival, Dances with Films, and streaming on Amazon Prime and Oscar supported platform OTV. 

Jessica’s romantic comedy feature “Ming & the Banana” was a Sundance Development Track second rounder. She was selected for the 2024 Alliance of Women Directors’ Rising Director Fellowship, a member of Gold House Creator network, a 2024 Satellite Collective Fellow, a 2023 Frieze LA Fellow with Endeavor Content, Ghetto Film School, Fifth Season and was highlighted as a Comedic Creator to follow in Whohaha 2022 Comedy Call Out.