Zhāo Lewis Liú is the chief content officer of Montage, a start-up streaming platform that curates independent films from Asia and Asian diasporas. He previously served as the chief content officer of Wavelets Entertainment, a production company based in Los Angeles that develops original content for China’s streaming market. He has also worked on the feature film Hidden Strike starring Jackie Chan and John Cena and served as a 2nd assistant director of Farewell Las Vegas, a Chinese TV series starring Nicky Wu and Ziwen Wang.
Lewis earned his MFA in Film and Video Production at The University of Iowa. Prior to coming to the United States, Lewis graduated with a BA in Broadcast Journalism at the Communication University of China. With various credits in narrative, documentary, and experimental animation, Lewis identifies himself as an avant-pop filmmaker.
community building
Lewis manages video programs for the 1990 Institute, a San Francisco based nonprofit organization with a mission to champion fair and equal treatment for Asian Americans and a constructive U.S.-China relationship.
He is also the founder and chair of the executive committee of Chinese in Entertainment, a California based non-profit organization that promotes Chinese culture and talent in the entertainment industry. Chinese in Entertainment organizes the annual Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival, the monthly Sino-Screen Speaker Series program, a monthly writers’ workshop and a monthly China mixer.
writing & TRANSLATION
Lewis joined theOlympic Broadcasting Services at the Beijing Shooting Venue as an interpreter and liaison officer in 2008. He then worked for the business channel of China Central Television (CCTV) in its Beijing headquarter as a broadcast journalist, before he went to Iowa City in 2009, where he worked as an interpreter for the prestigious International Writing Program. He later worked as a segment producer and on-air personality at the Mandarin service of Voice of America (VOA) in Washington, DC for four years, covering political, business and entertainment news.
Lewis is a bilingual English/Chinese writer and translator; he writes and translates screenplays, teleplays, novels, and press releases for clients in both United States & China.
Lewis started hip-hop dancing in 2005, and he used to be a crew member of China’s Dance Endless and OASIS DC. He also played the lead character LIU Junjie in feature film Caihong City.
