Shae Xu
Directing
Biography
Born in 1989, Shae Xu is a Chinese filmmaker based in New York and Shanghai. Her photos and experimental videos have been exhibited in gallery spaces, including a solo project in the Art Pavilion of the MoCA Shanghai. Xu’s narrative works unveil a feminist’s concern in a fast-growing world; her short films were screened in the China Independent Film Festival, the Pan African Film Festival, Outfest Los Angeles, Urbanworld Film Festival and NewFest the New York LGBT Film Festival. Xu is currently working on her first feature film Yellow Plum Rain.
Known For
Two Chinese-American sisters embark on a food tour through New York's vibrant Chinatown to commemorate the memory of their mother.
Shade and Honey
In this sensual and dream-like film, an unspoken romance inevitably resurfaces when a high school music teacher meets an old colleague again and decides to perform together for the first time as piano duet partners after they’ve long since drifted apart from each other.
Duet
A woman tries to tell her teenaged son that she and her friend are romantically involved.
Hudson
In the two weeks they've known one another, yoga instructor Tammy hasn't had a chance to talk to Marcus about her trans experience. Does she have to? A question considered by thousands of transgender people daily.