Lia has been described as a cultural filmmaker, and her background is coloured with diversity. Born in China, educated in Australia, now living in Japan, she has been a storyteller since childhood, and she fell in love with filmmaking as a teenager. As a young girl, she was enthralled by the storytelling, editing, music scores, cinematography, sound effects, and animation ingrained in such movies.

She holds a double Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and Japanese Studies from Macquarie University, Australia, and she has a Masters degree in Film Studies and Digital Image from the University of Sydney. Her attention to detail skills have been invaluable in her film editing career, but it was at the University of Sydney that she reignited her passion for filmmaking. She moved to Japan in 2020, and she started her first job in the film industry with Cuttingedge, Tokyo, as an assistant editor. She later joined a production company in Tokyo, Mr. Positive as a full-time editor and post-producer.

In late 2020, her passion for filmmaking inspired her to start her own production company, GoldBlink Pictures, and she produced her first short film before the end of the year. Titled “It’s All A Game'', the romance film has won several awards including the Hollywood Gold Award for Super Short Films, and the Oniro’s Film Award for the Best Romance Film. The film has gained some popularity, and it emerged as a finalist in the Tokyo International Short Film Festival. She selects her projects carefully, and she believes that a great production is more than great visuals, it is about the narrative core of the film, and the ability to capture a vision of the world.

Lia is trilingual. She speaks English, Chinese, and Japanese languages fluently, and her range of clients and creators have come from diverse nationalities across the world including Netflix, SK-II, Suntory, Bottega Veneta, Rakuten, and NZTE. Some of her favourite works can be viewed on her website https://liawfilm.com