Lulu Wei

Ethnicity: Chinese
Occupation and/or Company: Director & Cinematographer
Years of experience: 8

Upcoming performances/ project:
My feature documentary There’s No Place Like This Place, Anyplace is screening as a part of DOXA Documentary Film Festival June 18-26

What is the highlight of your work?
One of the highlights of the film for me was following Itah Sadu owner of A Different Booklist Cultural Centre’s fight to preserve the history and legacy of the black community in the block. I’d like to raise questions and keep the conversation going about the housing crisis, the lack of affordable housing and the issues around gentrification that a lot of cities are facing. I hope they’ll be able to experience the magic of Honest Ed’s and the nostalgia around it, as well as think about how do we reconcile history and character preservation, with the future and development. I hope it will encourage people to think about how do we create cities that we want to actually live in that are affordable and accessible.

Future goals:
To get the film into festivals and eventually into theatres. To raise funds for A Different Booklist Cultural Centre, to direct another film and shoot for other documentaries.