Liu Yulin

{{Short description|Chinese film director}}

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|name=Liu Yulin

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|birth_date={{Birth year and age|1987}}

|birth_place=Beijing{{cite web|title=Someone to Talk to|url=https://ciff.org.eg/en/info/someone-to-talk-to---by-yulin-|website=Cairo International Film Festival|access-date=27 June 2017}}

|notable_works=Someone to Talk To

|occupation=Film Director

|years_active=2013–present

|alma_mater=NYU Tisch (M.F.A.){{cite web|last1=Keogan|first1=Shonna|title=Tisch Grad Film Students Win 3 DGA Student Film Awards, Honoring Minority and Women Filmmakers|url=http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2014/december/tisch-grad-film-students-win-dga-student-film-awards.html|website=NYU News Release|access-date=27 June 2017}}
Communication University of China (B.A.) in Television & Journalism

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|father=Liu Zhenyun

|mother=Guo Jianmei

|awards=Student Academy Awards{{cite web|title=Yulin Liu, Narrative Silver Medal: 2014 Student Academy Awards|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zQiRSSRP_w|website=Oscars.org|access-date=27 June 2017}}{{cite web|title=Liu Yulin's Student Oscars Acceptance Speech|url=https://www.oscars.org/vef/load/f82a2ac728134e723aeaaaf14db28df6?width=640&height=365&iframe=true|website=Oscars.org|access-date=27 June 2017}}

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Liu Yulin is a Chinese film director, a graduate with the Master of Fine Arts degree from the Graduate Film program of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. In 2014, her short narrative film Door God, which is about a girl in China awaiting the return of her mother, won her the first international film prize - silver medal under the narrative category at the 41st Student Academy Awards.{{cite web|last1=Benedict|first1=Emily|title=The Academy Reveals Medal Placements at 2014 Student Academy Awards|url=http://www.oscars.org/news/academy-reveals-medal-placements-2014-student-academy-awardsr|website=Oscars.org|access-date=26 June 2017}} The same film later won in the category of Best Woman Student Filmmaker at the 20th Annual Directors Guild of America Student Film Awards - East Region.{{cite web|title=DGA Announces Winners of 20th Annual DGA Student Film Awards - East Region|url=https://www.dga.org/News/PressReleases/2014/141202-DGA-Announces-Winners-Of-20th-Annual-Student-Film-Awards-East-Region.aspx|website=Directors Guild of America|access-date=27 June 2017}} With her NYU thesis film Someone to Talk To,{{cite web|title="Someone To Talk To" Playing at AMC Empire 25|url=https://tisch.nyu.edu/grad-film/news/-someone-to-talk-to--playing-at-amc-empire-25|website=NYU Tisch News|access-date=27 June 2017}} which is adapted from her father Liu Zhenyun's award-winning novel One Sentence Is Ten Thousand Sentences, she made her feature film debut in October 2016 at the New Currents section at the 21st Busan International Film Festival.