Coordinates

Surrey Court, 17 Wrotham Road, Broadstairs CT10 1QG

+44 7879229205

fayeshu5@gmail.com

Experience

Films

Cinematographer/Editor, “A Traveller’s Lament”, 3 min, *2025 Living with Buildings by the Disappear Here poetry film project, 2025 Week Domain Experimental Film Festival, 2025 Short-Shorts Film Festival, 2025 16mm Film Festival

Writer/Director/Co-Editor, “Safe Dose”, 13 min, *Winner of The One Short Film Project for Women Directors with production grant, 2025 Seoul International Women’s Film Festival, 2025 Clapham Intl’ Film Festival, 2025 Ngilngig Asian Fantastic Film Festival, 2026 Indie Leeds Film Festival

Writer/Director, “Foliage”, 16min, *2024 FIRST International Film Festival, 2024 VITA Intl’ Short Film Festival, 2025 MICMX Intl’ Film Festival, 2025 Accessible Film Festival, 2025 Ecos Short Film Festival (3rd Place Winner), 2025 Intl’ Mostra Livre Film Festival, 2025 Bridge Film Festival, 2025 3ª edición del Festival Internacional de Cine de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (FICPBA), 2025 Rome Independent Film Festival, etc.

Script Translation and Subtitling    

Features: Blue Sun Palace (2024) *Winner of French Touch Prize of Cannes Critics Week, Lucky Lu (2025) *Premiered in Cannes, Naked in Glendale (in pre-production)

Documentary: The Vagrant Master (2023)

and four other short films.    

Chronology

2025.12-2026.1 Taidetila Muijala winter writing residency (FI)

2025.10 Residency at Linz ISFF (AT)

2025.8 Selection into the First Feature Lab - Linz ISFF

2025.5 Finished short film “A Traveller’s Lament” (UK)

2024.8 Shooting of short film “Safe Dose” (CN)

2024.6 Selection into “The One Short Film for Women Directors” program, with grants to make “Safe Dose”

2023.10 Shooting of short film “Foliage” (ES)

Education

Columbia University, Barnard College  |  New York, USA

Bachelor of Arts, Economics and Mathematics, cum laude    2013.8 – 2017.12