A recovering academic and now writer/political blogger and self-taught filmmaker, Cynthia Liu’s first short was a prize- winning romantic comedy with an all-Asian American cast. Red Thread was a favorite in North American/UK film fests, and was later distributed on DVD by Pathfinder Pictures. A micro-short, A[sian] Eye for the White Guy, commissioned by Los Angeles’ VC Film Festival followed, and most recently she filmed three PSAs in support of marriage equality. Liu was the inaugural winner of the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in entertainment (CAPE) New Writers Award. Various other narrative feature scripts were semi-finalists at several screenwriting contests: Austin Heart of Film Festival, American Accolades, and the Chesterfield Writers Film Project. In 2006, she was a finalist for the Disney/ABC Talent Development Scholarship; in 2007, she was a finalist for Tribeca All Access. Currently Liu is in post-production on her feature documentary, World on a String. She has also completed five narrative feature scripts: a romantic comedy set in the world of TV news, an adaptation of her road trip coming-of-age comic novel, a kung-fu epic/biopic of Genghis Khan, an eco-thriller involving militias battling for Native American tribal lands, and a thriller that updates Macbeth by setting the story amid murderous power struggles at an elite early 1960s Ivy League University English department. The projects are in various stages of development. Liu attended Cornell University and UC Berkeley.