Milton Liu
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Tribeca All Access® 2006
About
Milton Liu was born in Kansas City, but raised in Chicago -- which explains the terrible accent. He co-founded Kulture Machine (the first production company to be listed in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Indie Film); producing Student Academy Award winner JESUS HENRY CHRIST and the feature FIREFLIES IN THE GARDEN starring Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds, Emily Watson and Willem Dafoe.
A Tribeca feature screenplay winner, Disney Feature Fellow and Fox TV Writing Fellow, Milton has also created in the digital space with feature AWESOME ASIAN BAD GUYS, webseries JOHN HUGHES RUINED MY LIFE (TAA Alumni Grant) and short doc I HATE BIG PHONY. He most recently associate produced the feature LUCKY GRANDMA (AT&T/Tribeca Untold Stories), which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2019.
His current projects include the thriller/horror feature WHEN TIGERS SMOKED and the Asian horror/urban legend digital project THE RED ROOM. Milton is also the Director of Programs & Artist Services at Visual Communications (LA Asian Pacific Film Festival), Vice Chair of the APA Media Coalition, and a member of the WGA/west.
The Red Room
A Japanese American high-school student left alone at home for the first time in her life, uses her phone to document strange and bizarre happenings after her deceased grandfather begins contacting her – and directing her to a dark website known only as The Red Room.
John Hughes Ruined My Life (Web Series)
A single thirty-something woman who was raised on a steady diet of John Hughes' movies finds that, in this day and age, searching for her Jake Ryan is more like "Some Kind of Terrible."
John Hughes Ruined My Life
A lonely and single thirty-something woman who grew up on John Hughes' movies of the ‘80s finds that, in this day and age, searching for her Jake Ryan is more like "Some Kind of Terrible".