From Screenwriter to Writer/Director with Faith Liu

Show notes

Faith Liu is a writer/director who has written feature films for Blumhouse, FilmNation, Sony Pictures Animation, and Disney. Her directorial debut short “Sundowning” is available online at CryptTV’s YouTube channel after a successful festival run. She was a member of the CAPE New Writers Fellowship and Christina Hodson and Margot Robbie’s Lucky Exports Pitch Program.
Today we are getting into how Faith landed paid distribution for her short film, how she got connected with opportunities to write features for major studios in traditional Hollywood and what she thinks there is to gain from the film festival circuit.

Episode Breakdown

1. 1:31START
2. 2:00Sundowning, Faith’s horror-with-a-heart proof of concept short now out on CryptTV
3. 4:10Getting paid distribution for a short: CryptTV
4. 6:07What to gain from film festivals (especially genre festivals)
5. 13:20Winning the Wes Craven Award
6. 16:44Going from screenwriter to writer-director
7. 19:10Crowdfunding $40k for Sundowning
8. 23:20Signing with Faith’s longtime manager Max Goldfarb
9. 26:33First jobs in support staff on writers rooms of “Warrior” and “Better Call Saul”
10. 29:59Caren Dulles?
11. 33:50CAPE (Coalition for Asian Pacific in Entertainment) New Writers Program & how to pitch yourself in 3 minutes
12. 42:15Getting connected with writing for multiple Hollywood studios & landing Open Writing Assignment pitches
13. 48:10Getting into Margot Robbie’s Lucky Chap Pitch Program & women who write action
14. 51:40Faith’s advice for screenwriters
15. 54:14How living situation has impacted creativity
16. 56:00What helped Faith persevere
17. 59:04TIME CAPSULE