Name: Philip Lyu
Email: philiplyu@g.ucla.edu
Graduation Year: 2021
Track: Feature Track

Short Bio: Born and raised in Taiwan, Philip started his professional career as a recruiter, before deciding to follow his lifelong adoration for all things on-screen by pursuing screenwriting instead. He is the writer of feature Mystery in the Mist, and a staff writer on TV series The Renegades.

Philip is passionate about writing stories that have a strong emotional impact, mixing genre elements with themes both timely and timeless. He spends his free time cooking, as well curating music for whisky bars.

Title #1: The Anointed
Project Type #1: TV - Hour Long
Project Genre #1: Horror/Thriller/Family Drama/Coming of age
Logline #1: A lonely Asian teenager struggles to navigate adolescence in the strange and foreign land of America, but it gets even more complicated when he and his family learn that he is prophesied to be the Antichrist.

Title #2: White Terror
Project Type #2: TV - Hour Long
Project Genre #2: Historical Thriller/Drama/Police Procedural
Logline #2: At the height of Taiwan's authoritarian rule, a secret service agent teams up with the daughter of a freedom fighter to investigate a political scandal, but what they uncover threatens the lies upon which the regime is built.

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