Caroline Chu

In 2012, she wrote and directed The Dragon and the Phoenix. The film won Best Foreign Language Short at the Bare Bones Festival in 2015 and was selected for the American Online Film Awards in 2014. At London IFF in 2017, it was selected in the categories of editing, cinematography, short foreign-language film and sound design.

In 2014, she directed An Ideal Roommate (Un colocataire idéal), shot in French and Chinese in two eight-minute versions. It was screened from 22 to 30 April 2017 at the Centre d’Art et de Création in Aulnay-sous-Bois, France, a centre with strong ties to contemporary Chinese art.

Her twelve-minute short Comb Me (Peigne-moi) was presented at the Monaco Charity Film Festival in 2014 and was officially selected at Lady’s First International Film Festival in Cork, Ireland, in 2017.

Her French-German feature KRANK was selected at independent film festivals and released in France in February 2018. She subsequently worked on projects including the web series Ça reste entre nous, created by writer Grace Ly, and the short films Afternoon Party, created by writer Dominique Lancastre.

In 2019, Caroline worked as a Film Studies Tutor at a fine arts college in London. In 2020, she collaborated with a Polish writer on a television pilot script, Gunpowder, and began writing a science-fiction screenplay.

She holds a Master’s degree in Post Production and Film Editing from London South Bank University and is a member of British Film Editors.

In 2022, she completed two documentaries: The Boatwomen of the Forgotten Souls (Les Passeuses des âmes oubliées), about women fighting to keep their grandfathers’ memory alive, and Let There Be Light, about a British photographer living in China who worked as a translator for the British Army during the First World War.

In 2023, she began co-writing For Whom the Temple Waits with British writer Clive Harvey. Inspired by real people and events, the novel follows two Chinese men and a Polish woman in France during the First World War. It was launched on 13 February 2026 at the University of Westminster in London and is available online through Waterstones, Amazon UK and AbeBooks, among others.

In 2025, Caroline attended the Armistice Day parade with the Chinese contingent at the London Cenotaph for the fourth consecutive year.

Her forty-two-minute documentary Grandpas’ Untold Stories, also about Chinese workers of the First World War, was screened at the University of Westminster in February 2026 and selected in the Diaspora category at Festival Cinemasio, at the Forum des images in Paris, in March 2026.

Caroline is completing Lease for Sale (Bail à Céder), a thirty-minute documentary about a Chinese-Tibetan Buddhist who has lived in France for more than forty years.