-The Projector Exclusive-

11 wins & 11 nominations including 2024 Venice FIlm Festival Winner - Best Director (authors under 40 award)

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Join us for a virtual Q&A with Director Elizabeth Lo, moderated by filmmaker Jasmine Ng (Eating Air)

Venue: The Projector, Cineleisure

Date & Time : Sat 22 Feb, 1:30pm.

Screening: 1.30pm | Virtual Q&A 3:15pm

Please choose the 22 Feb date option if you wish to attend the Q&A.

Usually, when people say a film was the first to do something, they're just exaggerating. But with MISTRESS DISPELLER, Elizabeth Lo really has done something totally unprecedented. It's safe to say no other film has managed to capture this kind of intimacy, closely following a real-life couple (and the mistress) as they deal with their extramarital affair in a particularly unusual fashion. We guarantee you'll have lots of burning questions about the filmmaking process once you watch it, so join us for a one-time-only virtual Q&A with the very person who's got all the answers: director Elizabeth Lo!

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In China, a new industry has emerged devoted to helping couples stay married in the face of infidelity. Wang Zhenxi is part of this growing profession, a “mistress dispeller” who is hired to maintain the bonds of marriage—and break up affairs— by any means necessary. Offering strikingly intimate access to private dramas usually hidden behind closed doors, Mistress Dispeller follows a real, unfolding case of infidelity as Teacher Wang attempts to bring a couple back from the edge of crisis. Their story shifts our sympathies between husband, wife and mistress to explore the ways emotion, pragmatism and cultural norms collide to shape romantic relationships in contemporary China.

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About the Director:

Elizabeth Lo 罗宝 – Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Co-Editor

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Elizabeth is a filmmaker whose documentary films have been showcased at Sundance, IDFA, SXSW, Tribeca, MoMA, AFI Fest, True/False, New York Times Op-Docs, Field of Vision and PBS’ POV.

Elizabeth has been featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” DOC NYC’s “40 Under 40,” and Cannes Lions’ “New Directors Showcase.” Her debut feature, Stray, won Best International Feature at Hot Docs and received nominations from the Independent Spirit Awards, Critics Choice Documentary Awards and Cinema Eye Honors after premiering at Tribeca in 2020.

A New York Times “Critic’s Pick,” Stray was released theatrically by Magnolia Pictures and is now streaming on Hulu. Her short films — including Hotel 22, Bisonhead, and Mother’s Day — have been acquired by colleges and libraries worldwide. Elizabeth holds a BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from Stanford University.