Zi GAO

Zi Gao is a writer-director born and raised in China. In 2015, she earned her MFA in Film Directing from the California Institute of the Arts in the United States. Her short film ELIZA premiered at the Créteil International Women’s Film Festival and screened at festivals around the world. In 2017, Gao shot a short documentary THE FLOWER under the mentorship of Béla Tarr, which went on to screen at the Odense International Film Festival. She is also one of the 15 talents that was invited by Berlinale Talents Tokyo in 2018. She is currently developing her debut narrative feature RAJA’S EARLY SUMMER, which has been awarded the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund – Script and Project Development: Bright Future in fall 2018.

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