Liu Yulin is a Chinese film director, a graduate with the

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degree from the Graduate Film program of the

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. In 2014, her short narrative film

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, which is about a girl in China awaiting the return of her mother, won her the first international film prize - silver medal under the narrative category at the 41st

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. The same film later won in the category of Best Woman Student Filmmaker at the 20th Annual

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Student Film Awards - East Region. With her NYU thesis film Someone to Talk To, which is adapted from her father

Liu Zhenyun Liu Zhenyun (born May 1958) is a Chinese novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his novel '' Someone to Talk To'' (awarded the 2011 Mao Dun Literature Prize) as well as his involvement with the many film adaptions of his books. Among t ...

's award-winning novel One Sentence Is Ten Thousand Sentences, she made her feature film debut in October 2016 at the

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section at the

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Filmography

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Living people Film directors from Beijing Tisch School of the Arts alumni Communication University of China alumni 1987 births {{China-film-director-stub