The Mushroomers
TFI Suppport
Logline
Persie, a recently widowed mycologist, attempts to heal a contaminated old-growth forest in Washington State using only super fungi - but the mechanics of Mother Nature and her own mourning prove far fickler than anticipated.
Erica Liu
Director, Screenwriter
Erica Liu is a Taiwanese-American filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She participated in the AFI Conservatory Directing Workshop for Women. Her films have screened at AFI Fest, Clermont-Ferrand and Palm Springs Int’l Shortfest, among other festivals. SPRINGTIME received the Crystal Heart Award at Heartland Film Festival and aired on public television nationwide via KQED and affiliate stations. THE DISAPPOINTMENT TOUR received a Will & Jada Smith Family Foundation grant. Erica is currently incubating her first feature, THE MUSHROOMERS, which was a finalist of the 2017 NYU Sloan Feature Film Award and recipient of the 2018 SFFILM Sloan Science in Film Fellowship.
Erica earned her MFA from NYU Tisch and spent five years working and shooting throughout Asia. Before finding filmmaking, Erica manned a food truck in Thailand, took the LSATs, worked in a photography studio, sold calendars at gas stations and designed wedding stationery—all of which she’s chalked up as grist for the storytelling mill.
Yu-Hao Su
Producer
Yu-Hao (David) Su’s filmmaking journey began on Ang Lee’s LIFE OF PI, where he worked in the art department, before going on to work on major Taiwanese blockbusters such as KANO. Su is an alum of AFI Conservatory’s producing MFA program. He produced FATA MORGANA (Clermont-Ferrand premiere), THE DISAPPOINTMENT TOUR (AFI FEST) and Frameline Completion Fund winner BOBBYANNA. He was also a producer on TEST PATTERN, Jury Award Winner for Narrative Feature Competition at New Orleans Film Festival, and associate producer on TWO SENTENCE HORROR STORIES, a web series on Verizon’s go90 platform. He line-produced THE CLOUD IN HER ROOM, which won the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2020. David participated in Film Independent’s signature diversity program, Project Involve, in 2018.