Journey to the East

Directed by Eve Liu

Type of Project: Drama
Length: 11:28
Producer: Alex Bendo, Grant Hyun
Editor: Eve Liu
Cinematographer: Mingjue Hu
Sound Designer: Paul Hsu

A Woman with No Name wanders alone through a barren desert, in search for her dead husband-to-be’s bones. On the verge of death, she falls into a mystical land between the East and West, known as “The End of the World.” There, she encounters a gang of mythical Chinese Cowboys known as “The Chinamen,” gatekeepers of the bones of all Chinese Americans who have died in the West…

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Born in London and raised in Australia, Eve Liu is a current Tisch Scholar at New York University and an MFA candidate in writing and directing. A graduate of New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Eve worked as a writer and researcher for both James Schamus and Baz Luhrmann, where she was writing supervisor to the upcoming Elvis biopic. She is experimenting with an amalgamation of East West genres and pop culture. This is her first short.