Li Lu
Directing
Biography
Li Lu is an award-winning narrative and documentary director. She was born in Suzhou, China and raised in Sugar Land, Texas. Her debut feature There is a New World Somewhere (2015) won three Best Feature awards prior to its theatrical release. Li's television credits include The Resident (FOX) and Echoes, a NETFLIX limited series. Her landmark docuseries A Town Called Victoria (2024) about the arson of a Texas mosque premiered on PBS’s Independent Lens and won Best Limited Series at the International Documentary Awards, earning Lu a place on DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 list. Lu is also a film curator and creator of HTX MADE, a film series celebrating artists and audiences in Texas.
Known For
“We are the stories we tell ourselves.” Seeing is Believing: Women Direct is a documentary series about directors, leaders… who happen to be women.Audiences will hear directly from women who are on the front lines of the field: from major award winners to NYU students, festival darlings to frustrated auteurs. They will discover the pathways to successful creativity as well as how these filmmakers drive through obstacles creative, cultural, and professional. The film ultimately will act as a toolbox for any filmmaker as well as “peer to peer mentorship” for any person who is looking for creative or professional guidance as they move toward their own dreams of being a visual storyteller.
Seeing is Believing: Women Direct
The South Texas town of Victoria faces difficult questions about its own identity after a local mosque is burned to the ground.
A Town Called Victoria
When the local mosque is burned to the ground in an apparent hate crime, the town of Victoria must overcome its age-old political, racial, and economic divides to find a collective way forward.