Amy Lu / Portfolio 2026
Based between New York and Shanghai, I work across narrative film, documentary, photography, and creative production. I’m drawn to quiet tension, charged spaces, and the things people struggle to say out loud.
Practice
Directing · Editing · Cinematography
Producing · Photography
Selected Film
05 works
Project / 01
2026
Narrative short · Sight & Sound
Amy’s role
Director · DP · Writer · Producer · Editor
About the film
On the last night before a mother sends her son to a behavior-correction center, an ordinary dinner turns into a struggle over care, fear, and control. The film stays close to the small gestures between them—what they say, what they avoid, and how love can become difficult to separate from harm.
Project / 02
July 2024
Narrative short
Amy’s role
Director · Writer · Editor
About the film
A woman waits at a bar to celebrate an anniversary. Her partner arrives holding someone else’s hand—and claims they have never met.
Project / 03
November 2023
Narrative short · Five College Film Festival nominee
Amy’s role
Director · DP · Editor
About the film
A college student moves through the ordinary rooms of campus life as one quiet question begins to carry more weight than it should.
Nominated · 2024 Five College Film Festival
Project / 04
April 2025
Mini horror short
Amy’s role
Director · DP · Editor
About the film
A girl works alone on her homework late at night. Then someone starts knocking at her door.
Project / 05
2026
Black-and-white short
Amy’s role
Director · Editor
About the film
A young Asian woman tries to make a life in New York while carrying the rules she grew up with. Even a gesture as simple as taking off her shoes becomes a quiet negotiation between habit, fear, and choosing for herself.
Other work
A college student who debates pro-AI voices on YouTube begins to suspect that the people answering her may not be human at all.
A short training and promotional film made for Well on Their Way, following how repeated, low-dose practice helps frontline maternal-health providers keep lifesaving skills ready.
A short profile shaped for social release, centered on Emily’s work and the lived realities behind midwifery care.
A recap of Smith College’s international pre-orientation, built from interviews with the student leaders who made the week happen.
A farewell film made for one of Smith’s biggest international-student traditions, screened at the annual talent show as a gift to the graduating class.
