Education Boston College Years active 2014-present Place of birth Beijing | Occupation Filmmaker Notable work Posthumous Movies Posthumous, Touch | |
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Alma mater New World School of the Arts Similar Bernadette Bürgi, Fabian Stumm, Pamela Knaack, Alexander Fehling, Joost Siedhoff | ||
Lulu Wang is an American writer and filmmaker. She is best known for her feature film debut Posthumous starring Jack Huston and Brit Marling.
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Early life
Wang was born in Beijing, China. In China, Wang's mother was editor of the Beijing Literary Gazette and her father once served as a diplomat for China in the Soviet Union. During early childhood, Wang and her parents immigrated to Miami, Florida, where Wang was raised. She has trained in classical piano since the age of 4 and attended New World School of the Arts in Miami for piano performance. Wang graduated from Boston College with a double major in Literature and Music.
Career
Wang's first film, Posthumous debuted at the Zürich Film Festival. It also played in the U.S. at the Miami International Film Festival and has been released worldwide. In 2014, Wang was awarded with the Chaz and Roger Ebert Directing Fellowship at the Film Independent Spirit Awards.
Her 2015 short film Touch premiered at the Palm Springs International ShortsFest. It was also an NBCU Short Film Festival finalist, selected by American Cinematheque for its Annual Focus on Female Directors, and took home Best Drama at the Asians on Film Festival.
In May 2016, Wang wrote a story for NPR's This American Life that is currently being developed as a feature film with producer Chris Weitz.