JUDGING TEAM

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Yang Liu (Lizzy) is a director, producer, and writer based in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from Emerson College majoring in Film and Media Art with an MFA degree. Previously, she received her BFA degree at Beijing Film Academy. Through the global film production studies from China to the US, she has built solid theoretical and practical experiences with a deep insight into the international film market. Working as the Creative Executive at a Hollywood film production and financing company, she supervises Indie Film, Documentary, and Animation departments. She is also in charge of a young director support program as the Executive Officer of North America. 

The program is for supporting BIPOC and female filmmakers. She has written and directed several award-winning films in the past, including A Matter of Time, World Without End, and Tessellation. Her work has been nominated and won many international film festivals, such as LA Shorts(Oscar, BAFTA qualified), Holly Shorts(Oscar qualified), WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, and New York City Independent Film Festival. Currently, she is working closely with Academy Award winner Donna Gigliotti and Academy Award nominee Diane Quon in the post-production and distribution process of an award-winning documentary Wuhan Wuhan.

At the age of 13, Lori Mae Hernandez was the youngest female comedian ever featured on multiple major networks. She was named by Refinery 29 as one of the top ten female comedians to know. She was a semifinalist and the last comedian standing in season 11 of America's Got Talent. Simon Cowell called her the, "Next Tina Fey." She's guest starred on Disney Channel's Bizaardvark and KC Undercover, Netflix's No Good Nick, and the reboot of iCarly. She was also a cast member on Everything's Gonna Be Okay on Freeform and Hulu. Hernandez has also made three short films in the past year that are winning laurels at a multitude of festivals, and she is studying screenwriting at UCLA. She has also performed in over 50 plays and musicals in her lifetime. For example, Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird, Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker, and Little Red in the musical Into The Woods. She is a comedian, actor, director, comedy writer, artist, ukulele player, and dog mom.

Songhuan Li is a contemporary artist, film director and film producer，based in Los Angeles, Hollywood. Songhuan Li is also a yogi of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism (Longchen Nyingthig System). Benefiting from eleven years of rigorous spiritual practice, Songhuan Li is committed to implementing his understanding of the essence of the human spirit in his films, film theory studies and installation art: The Essence of moving image must be related to the deepest emotion, thought, desire and the soul of humanity, Which should let the audience to achieves a complete self-awareness in the present.

In the process of implementing this concept, Songhuan Li created 18 Films, the major projects are: The Trilogy of Samsara (The Conversion, Liberty, I), The Trilogy of Life and Death (The Splendid Aria, Last Dance, The Death of An Artist), The Trilogy of Dream and Poem (Dakini, Karma, Monkey and Jasmine)

So far, Songhuan Li has received more than 90 awards and selections from many
international film festivals, Include
Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, Cannes International Film Festival, Sydney International Film Festival, French Independent Film Festival, Rome International Movie Awards, Milan Gold Awards, Paris Shorts Film Awards, New York Independent Cinema Awards, Chinese American Film Festival, etc.

Todd Lien is an award-winning film director and screenwriter from Taiwan who is also a working actor/singer in Hollywood. His passion in storytelling is also passed down to Asian American child artists that he teaches and manages whenever he is not on set. His goal is to increase visibility on the big screen for Asian American community AND the LGBTQ community by creating more films and stories as an artist and as an acting coach.