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Professor of Cinematic Arts teaching theory and production courses in the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong. An independent documentary filmmaker, Louisa joined the Hong Kong Director’s Guild in 2018 and has twice served as a professional juror for the Hong Kong Film Awards. She became a member of the Hong Kong Film Critic Society in 2024.
Louisa has written and directed four feature and three television documentaries, including Storm under the Sun (紅日風暴2009), Golden Gate Girls (金門銀光夢2014), Wang Shiwei: The Buried Writer (王實味：被淹沒的作家2016, for RTHK), Havana Divas (古巴花旦 2018), Writing 10000 Miles (跋涉者蕭紅2019, for RTHK), and A Life in Six Chapters (蕭軍 六記2022). Her feature films have received international acclaim from academics and film
festivals and have attracted media attention from Hollywood trade magazines to major English and Chinese media, including The Hollywood Reporter, BBC, South China Morning Post, etc..
As a scholar and writer, Louisa has published many articles on women writers/directors in Sinophone cinema in academic journals, anthologies, and encyclopedias. She has published four cinema-related books, including Esther Eng: Ocean-crossing Film and Women Pioneers (霞哥傳奇：跨洋電影與女性先鋒2016, winner of Hong Kong Book Award 2017, co- author Law Kar), Cinema East and West (東西方電影 2016, expanded edition), Animate! ( 開始學動畫, 2010, co-author Karen McCann), and Women’s Cinema: Dialogues with Chinese and Japanese Female Directors (女性的電影：對話中日女導演, 2009, co-author Yang Yuanying). Her monographs on China’s intellectual history also received positive reviews. Wang Shiwei: A Reform in Thinking (王實味：文藝整風與思想改造2016) had three prints within a year of initial publication, winning the Distinguished Publishing Prize in
the Literature and Fiction Category at The First Hong Kong Biennial Publishing Prize, 2017. Hu Feng: Poetic Ideals, Political Storm (胡風：詩人理想與政治風暴 2017) has been endorsed by historians, writers, and literary scholars.
