Director biography

Siyuan Liu was born in Wuhan, Hubei, China in 1997. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Wuhan University and obtained a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Film Directing Program from the California Institute of the Arts. A stranger who spent the first 21 years of her life in her hometown, but gradually forgot how to say her native dialect. Film director, radio enthusiast, word lover, wild songwriter. She uses chats and words to record life and collect stories, and then uses images and sounds to convey emotions and tell stories. Most of her works focus on the intimate relationships between people, between people and the outside environment and even between people and their inner worlds. She tries to draw a balance between empathy and rationality, and between idealism and cynicism. She tries to put words floating in the air like "loneliness", “void” and "understanding" into reality, hoping to let the audience gain the most authentic feelings of their own in the fiction construction. The founder, anchor, recording engineer and editor of the podcast "BOBO Radio”. It has been recording her life and thoughts at that moment with the frequency of a weekly issue since 2016.