About Me

Shako Liu is a documentary filmmaker, an award-winning video journalist based in New York City. I direct, shoot, edit and produce, from studio to field, from protests to red carpets, from journalism to branding.

I speak fluent Mandarin and Cantonese, semi-fluent Japanese and Korean, and a little bit of Spanish.

My work has appeared on broadcast networks such as NBC News, MSNBC, ABC News and the Oprah Winfrey Network; on streaming platforms like Peacock TV, Hulu, Roku and Apple TV; on digital outlets such as ABC Localish, NowThis and POV; in film festivals such as the San Francisco Documentary Festival, Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival and New York World Film Festival; on popular comedy shows like “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”; on branding like Ford Motor Company, and, finally, on a skyscraper once.