Experience
Films
Maker, “Wedding Days”, 29 min, Documentary / Experimental, 2026, in festival circuit
Maker, “A Traveller’s Lament”, 3 min, 2025, Documentary / Experimental, 2025, *2025 Living with Buildings by the Disappear Here poetry film project, 2025 Weekend Domain Experimental Film Festival, 2025 Short-Shorts Film Festival, 2025 Harkat 16mm Film Festival, 2026 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival
Writer/Director/Co-Editor, “Safe Dose”, 13 min, Fiction, 2024, *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 SANFICI – Santander Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente, etc.
Writer/Director, “Foliage”, 16 min, Fiction, 2024, *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 Festival Internacional de Cine de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (FICPBA), 2025 Rome Independent Film Festival, 2025 Lumen - Rio de Janeiro Independent Film Festival, 2026 ShortFest Buenos Aires (mención del jurado), 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
2026.3 Selection into NIUDOC 2026 with hybrid film Weird Bridges (IT)
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
Artistic Statement
Faye Shu is a non-formally trained “maker” working with video, film, and texts. She found her entrance into independent filmmaking through translating film scripts for feature film directors.
In her works, she explores underlying themes of living, solitude, and connections. She’s drawn to things falling scattered along a surface of attachment, the dynamics of in-betweenness, and the possibility of the encounter of the souls beyond the concept of a single, unified self. She desires to be re-enchanted by the marvel of living, of objects, and of a more broadly defined ecology.