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Xinhao "Violet" Lu is an award-winning director and screenwriter from Guangdong, China, based in Los Angeles. He is fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and English.

After graduating from Tianjin University of Finance and Economics in 2020, he attended to American Film Institute as a Directing Fellow in 2021.

His most recent film, Deep Into The Forest, premiered at 2024 Tribeca Festival and the 9th CAA Moebius showcase, and has been officially selected by lots of film festivals. His film Red Man won LA Shorts International Film Festival - Best Experimental in 2023.

His films often contain delicate human emotions and unusual relationships among characters, and focus on social inequalities or absurd events.


_ Tianjin University of Finance and Ecnomics
Finance, BA

_ American Film Institue Conservatory
Directing, MFA



xlu@afi.edu
xinhaolufilm@gmail.com
(323)610-0736

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