Name: Philip Lyu
Graduation Year: 2021
Feature Track or TV Track: Feature Track
Contact Email: philiplyu@g.ucla.edu
Short Bio: Philip Ji-Syan Lyu is an aspiring Taiwanese writer passionate for all things on-screen. Prior to UCLA, he spent 10 years working as a corporate recruiter and film & TV critic, before finally choosing to follow his love for screenwriting... and to debunk the notion that critics are simply those who cannot write.
Philip is committed to writing stories that have a strong emotional impact, yet able to reflect the world we live in, and ideally with a strong genre influence. He is the writer of historical feature Mystery in the Mist, and a staff writer on the Taiwanese anthology series The Renegades (currently in-production). He wishes more people would be interested in international films, and believes the cancellation of One Day at a Time was, and still is, an atrocious crime.
Short Artist Statement: Thriller, Actioner, or Rom-Com that may be small in scale, but thoughtful and entertaining in execution.
Logline #1: COTTONMOUTH - Feature - At the behest of his late mentor, a weary assassin travels to a mysterious small town to bury the memories of his past. But when he discovers the horrifying secrets behind the small town facade, he must decide whether to embrace the darkness within, or burn everything to the ground.
Logline #2: MISSDEMEANOR - TV Show - A transgender woman moves from city to city, navigating love, friendship, gender, and social activism, while contemplating the freedom and horror of being rootless.
Logline #3: WHITE TERROR - TV Show - At the height of the Taiwan's authoritarian regime, a secret service agent teams up with the daughter of a freedom fighter to investigate a series of political scandals, but what they uncover threatens the lies upon which the regime is built.
Name three movies or TV shows that inspire you: Justified, The Americans, The Fugitive (The Harrison Ford one)
Graduation Year: 2021
Feature Track or TV Track: Feature Track
Contact Email: philiplyu@g.ucla.edu
Short Bio: Philip Ji-Syan Lyu is an aspiring Taiwanese writer passionate for all things on-screen. Prior to UCLA, he spent 10 years working as a corporate recruiter and film & TV critic, before finally choosing to follow his love for screenwriting... and to debunk the notion that critics are simply those who cannot write.
Philip is committed to writing stories that have a strong emotional impact, yet able to reflect the world we live in, and ideally with a strong genre influence. He is the writer of historical feature Mystery in the Mist, and a staff writer on the Taiwanese anthology series The Renegades (currently in-production). He wishes more people would be interested in international films, and believes the cancellation of One Day at a Time was, and still is, an atrocious crime.
Short Artist Statement: Thriller, Actioner, or Rom-Com that may be small in scale, but thoughtful and entertaining in execution.
Logline #1: COTTONMOUTH - Feature - At the behest of his late mentor, a weary assassin travels to a mysterious small town to bury the memories of his past. But when he discovers the horrifying secrets behind the small town facade, he must decide whether to embrace the darkness within, or burn everything to the ground.
Logline #2: MISSDEMEANOR - TV Show - A transgender woman moves from city to city, navigating love, friendship, gender, and social activism, while contemplating the freedom and horror of being rootless.
Logline #3: WHITE TERROR - TV Show - At the height of the Taiwan's authoritarian regime, a secret service agent teams up with the daughter of a freedom fighter to investigate a series of political scandals, but what they uncover threatens the lies upon which the regime is built.
Name three movies or TV shows that inspire you: Justified, The Americans, The Fugitive (The Harrison Ford one)