Lloyd Lee Choi

Lloyd Lee Choi is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.[1] He is most noted for his 2022 short film Same Old, which premiered in the short film competition at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival,[2] and received an honorable mention from the Best Canadian Short Film jury at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.[3]

Originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Choi had planned to study aerospace engineering at university, but changed his mind and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia to study film-making.[4] In 2015 he joined Variable, a New York City-based film-making collective.[4]

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 Western Canadian Music Award nomination for Video Director of the Year in 2018 for "Closer", a single by Winnipeg indie pop band Mise en Scene.[5]

In 2022 he was named a recipient of the Future Gold Film Fellowship, a Netflix-sponsored program to produce short films by East Asian and Pacific Islander directors.[6]

  1. ^ Jeromy Lloyd, "30 UNDER 30 – LLOYD LEE CHOI". Marketing, October 7, 2014.
  2. ^ Laurence Boyce, "Families, fears and freedom take centre stage at Cannes Shorts 2022". Cineuropa, May 24, 2022.
  3. ^ Christian Zilko, "‘The Fabelmans’ Wins TIFF 2022 People’s Choice Award". IndieWire, September 18, 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Variable Adds Director Lloyd Lee Choi to US Roster". Little Black Book, October 13, 2015.
  5. ^ Scott James, "Jesse Roper And Leeroy Stagger Are Among This Year’s Western Canadian Music Awards Nominees". CKKQ-FM, June 12, 2018.
  6. ^ Jazz Tangcay, "Gold House Names Future Gold Fellowship Filmmaker Recipients". Variety, January 27, 2022.