ABOUT
LILLY ZHUANG
Her debut short film AS FAR AS OUR EYES CAN SEE premiered at the BFI Future Film Festival in 2021 where it was nominated for Best Documentary. She is also a published writer/poet and photographer. Her work has been shown in Wild Court and Phi Mag, amongst others. She is currently persuing an MFA in Creative Documentary by Practice at University College London (UCL).
Her fiction directorial debut, HERE, is set to premiere at BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival 2025.
Growing up in the Netherlands as the daughter of Chinese artists, Lilly has centered her interdisciplinary creative and academic work around the renegotiation of the diasporic nature of identity and belonging. Having graduated from a MA in Film and Philosophy at King’s College London (KCL), she positions her creative work and responsibility at the interstices of politics and media, focussing on projects with sociopolitical and cultural value in, what she calls, our kaleidoscopic media environment.
Drawing from a strength in delicate imagery, Lilly's work underlines the emotive powers of gestures and environment, of rhythmic and affective storytelling that roots itself in the intricacies of larger-than-life everyday scenery that fortifies the idea of humans in the midst of wider ecologies and discourses.