French writer-director Vanessa LY starts making films when she moves to New York after studying Modern Literature at the Sorbonne.  

Self-taught in cinema, she is the recipient of the Jameson Short Film Award and the Best Short Film Award at the Bangkok Film Festival with Mekong Interior. Her debut feature Memories of the Future  wins the Best Philip K. Dick Feature Award.

Festivals/Screenings include: Rotterdam, Edinburgh, Palm Spring, Côté Court Pantin, Rencontres du Moyen Métrage de Brive (France), Anthology Archives (NYC). Her short films were shortlisted at Cannes' Critic’s Week, the Director’s Fortnight, Visions du Réel and the FiD. 

Vanessa LY is currently developing her second feature.