She was born in Suzhou, China and moved to the U.S. when she was five. Raised on all three coasts and graduating high school in Sugar Land, TX, Li received her B.A. from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. There is a New World Somewhere, her debut feature, won three Best Feature awards and was distributed theatrically and on demand. Her teleplay Razorhurst, about Australian street gangs, won Best Teleplay at HBO’s Skyway Film Festival. Her current project, A Town Called Victoria—a documentary about the burning of a Texas mosque—has garnered support from numerous organizations, including the Sundance Institute. She also directs commercials and music videos, with some reaching over one million views. She has been profiled in The New York Times, IndieWIRE, NPR and Bitch Magazine as a maker of both fiction and documentary films.