Meet Julie Liang

Today we’d like to introduce you to Julie Liang.

Hi Julie, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
My story is called Conversation in the Car. It’s about how “my friend” invited “me” on her trip. But she tells me that she’s going to commit suicide after the trip ends. Everything happens while they’re talking and driving in a car. Part of the story is based on my true experience: I unexpectedly found my friend’s suicide notes a few years ago. I didn’t know what happened to her, so I tried to stop her. Luckily, it ended up being a misunderstanding.

But I am still concerned because she’s suffering from depression. So the real idea of this film starts from a dream that I had last year, my friend was killed in the dream. I guess both her suicide notes and the dream left her a connection with “death” in my subconsciousness. So I decided to make it a film.

Through the film, I hope that we can reconsider many things, and I hope I can be as supportive as I can of my friends and family, especially when they’re dealing with something that I cannot easily emphasize.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Not really. I stuck to the script for a long time, because I wanted to make it more experimental than I usually do, which made it have no actual script at the beginning. Every time I asked for feedback, my idea could only confuse people, because I couldn’t tell exactly what happened in every shot. So I cleaned up my mind, spent time thinking about what I really wanted to tell in the story, and rewrote the whole thing.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I’m a character designer and storyboard artist. I’m passionate about animation and love feature films. I think the story is the real core of most movies, so I’m proud of my intriguing stories. I believe I can always come up with simple but attractive stories, they entertain the audience who watches movies just for fun, but also please the people who’d like to dig more into a story. I’m proud of how sentient I am, it allows me to feel more than other people.

If you had to, what characteristic of yours would you give the most credit to?
Finish everything on time. Please don’t laugh, it seems to be a minor detail, but it means a lot, especially working as a team.

Contact Info:

• Website: lettertojulie.com
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/juliegotthis?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiaobu-liang-638871259/

Image Credits
All by Julie