Shukai Wang

Houston International Film Festival Award-winning director, Shukai Wang has directed multiple indie films like Banker by the Lake, 7045 Steps, and Wait, Lorenzo! Besides his independent filmmaking passion and pursuit, Shukai works full-time at the global Investment bank, Credit Suisse Securities. Shukai combines his filmmaking experience and his banking background as a unique producer in NYC helping many emerging directors' films in NYC. Influenced by European Poetic Cinema and Asian Cinema, Shukai likes to express the topics and emotions in a poetic, oriental style. He focuses on the rhythm and color of the shots and combines real-life stories with surreal dreams. His ambition is to create his own styles of Poetic Cinema in the future, addressing human beings' existential crises and conflicts in modern society. The Chinese version of a film-producing book he translated, The Art of Film Funding, by Carole Lee Dean, is published in 2018 and assigned as one of the textbooks for the Beijing Film Academy. More surprisingly, he was a Chinese poet before he moved to the U.S. and he has his own Chinese poem collection, called The Deconstruction of My Dreams. Some of his poems were published in literary magazines in China.