Lloyd Lee Choi is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.[1] He is most noted for his 2022 short film Same Old, which premiered in the short film competition at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival,[2] and received an honorable mention from the Best Canadian Short Film jury at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.[3]
Originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Choi had planned to study aerospace engineering at university, but changed his mind and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia to study film-making.[4] In 2015 he joined Variable, a New York City-based film-making collective.[4]
He has also directed the short films Foxtrot (2013), 40 Love (2014), Wanderlust (2015), Before Mars (2016) and Closing Dynasty (2022), and has worked in advertising as a director of television commercials. He received a Western Canadian Music Award nomination for Video Director of the Year in 2018 for "Closer", a single by Winnipeg indie pop band Mise en Scene.[5]
In 2022 he was named a recipient of the Future Gold Film Fellowship, a Netflix-sponsored program to produce short films by East Asian and Pacific Islander directors.[6]
His feature film debut Lucky Lu, a full-length expansion of Same Old, premiered in the Directors Fortnight program at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.[7] In the same year, he was named the winner of the TIFF-CBC Films Screenwriter Award for his screenplay Yakult Ajumma.[8]
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