Lloyd Lee Choi is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He is most noted for his 2022 short film '' Same Old'', which premiered in the short film competition at the

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, and received an honorable mention from the Best Canadian Short Film jury at the

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. Originally from

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, Choi had planned to study

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at university, but changed his mind and moved to

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to study film-making."Variable Adds Director Lloyd Lee Choi to US Roster"
''Little Black Book'', October 13, 2015. In 2015 he joined Variable, a

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-based film-making collective. He has also directed the short films ''Foxtrot'' (2013), ''40 Love'' (2014), ''Wanderlust'' (2015), ''Before Mars'' (2016) and ''Closing Dynasty'' (2022), and has worked in advertising as a director of television commercials. He received a

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nomination for Video Director of the Year in 2018 for "Closer", a single by Winnipeg indie pop band Mise en Scene. In 2022 he was named a recipient of the Future Gold Film Fellowship, a

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-sponsored program to produce short films by East Asian and Pacific Islander directors. His feature film debut '' Lucky Lu'', a full-length expansion of ''Same Old'', is slated to premiere in the

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program at the

2025 Cannes Film Festival The 78th annual Cannes Film Festival took place from 13 to 24 May 2025. French actress Juliette Binoche served as jury president for the main competition. Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama ...

. In the same year, he was named the winner of the TIFF-CBC Films Screenwriter Award for his screenplay ''Yakult Ajumma''.Jamie Casemore
"Lloyd Lee Choi wins 2025 TIFF-CBC Films Screenwriter Award"
'' Playback'', April 15, 2025.

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