Modules Taught

• Digital Media Aesthetics and Production
• Film/Television Studies
• Digital Filmmaking
• Trans-media Storytelling
• Short-format Scriptwriting
• American Film History
• Chinese Indies and Chinese Film Industry

Teaching Experience

The modules I tutored at The University of Auckland (2011-2016): FTVMS101 Film Studies for four semesters (every 2nd semester, 2011-2014), FTVMS 215/G215 Reading Contemporary Films (1st semester in 2013), FTVMS202/307 Hollywood and Its Others (2nd semester in 2016).

The courses I taught at Fudan J-School (Feb 2006-2012): Audiovisual Language, Short Film Scriptwriting, Digital Production Workshop, TV Studio Production, World Film History, Media Convergence; English courses for post-graduate level: Chinese Indie Cinema, Chinese Indie Documentary and Social Transformation, for exchange postgraduate students from University of Vienna and University of Salzburg, Austria, and Double-Master Degree students from LSE, UK.

MA Supervision (Double-Master Degree in Global Media run by Fudan J-School & LSE)

• The Case Study of Tudou.com: Examining Its Formulation of an Online Business Model for Video-file Sharing Industries, written by Catherine Perreira, completed in 2010.
• Making Sense of Video Art in China: Deconstructing Cynicism and Displeasure, written by Rosemary Reyes, completed in 2011.
• Urban Post-1979 Chinese Youth as a Lens: Defining a 6th Generation Cinema at Hands with a Coming-of-Age China, written by Raphaël Lemée, completed in 2013.

Research

• 3D Storytelling and Aesthetics
• 3D Media and Convergence with VR, AR and MR
• Digital Technology and Artistic Expression
• Film Tourism
• Chinese Media Policy and Media Industry
• Australasian Cinema
• Iranian National Cinema

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

Ling, M., Liu, Y., & Nechita, F. (2024). Project-based learning at Dracula Digital: A comparative perspective from Romania and Brunei. Trends in Higher Education, 3(3), 757–778. https://doi.org/10.3390/higheredu3030043

Liu, Y. & Fischer, A. (2023). Higher education film festivals as industry nodes in Brunei Darussalam. Southeast Asian Media Studies Journal, 5(1), 1-19. (PDV Version) 

Liu, Y., Ling, M., & Nechita, F. (2023). Higher-institution-based film festivals as a vehicle to improve student production quality and form university–industry connections. Trends in Higher Education, 2(2), 340-362. https://doi.org/10.3390/higheredu2020020

Liu, Y. (2023). 3D cinematic ontologies and narrative engagement. New Techno Humanities, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techum.2023.05.002

Fischer, A., & Liu, Y. (2021). Screen industry snap-shot: A study of the Bruneian screen industry amid the COVID-19 pandemic. South East Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 21(2), 30-49. (PDF Version)

Popa, D., Nechita, F., Liu, Y. & Chin, W. L. (2021). Linking positive psychology and intercultural competence by movies: Evidence from Brunei and Romania. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.750904

Liu, Y. (2021). The negotiation between the predominated sacredness and secular popular culture in Brunei Darussalam. South East Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 20(2), 16-29. (PDF Version)

Liu, Y., Chin, W. L., Nechita, F., & Candrea, A. N. (2020). Framing film-induced tourism into a sustainable perspective from Romania, Indonesia and Malaysia. Sustainability, 12(23), 9910. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12239910

Chin, W. L., & Liu, Y. (2018). The film-induced tourism development in Brunei: Perspectives and potentiality. Borneo Research Journal, 12, 36–56. (Publisher’s Link).

Simmons, L., & Liu, Y. (2018). 劳伦斯·西蒙斯1，刘咏2译. 《千里走单骑》中的景观表现传统。上海大学学报(社会科学版) [Landscape and topography in riding alone for thousands of miles]. Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition), 35(3), 10–20. (Publisher’s Link). (PDF Version).

Liu, Y. (2011). Hypothesis of cinematic interfaces metaphor in the transforming digitization era – An introduction, delimitation and overview of cinematic interfaces. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2(1), 214–220. (PDF Version Here).

Liu, Y. (2009). The production models for mobile phone films and its integration with traditional television. Television Research, 237(8), 18–21. (In Chinese)

Liu, Y. (2009). Management strategy from breakthrough integration to intensive producing scale – Exclusive interview with Vice-President of Shanghai film studio, Xu Pengle. Journalism Quarterly, 100(2), 91–95. (In Chinese).

Books

Liu, Y. (2018). 3D Cinematic Aesthetics and Storytelling. Palgrave Macmillan (UK). (Publisher's Link).

Book Chapters

Chin, W. L., & Liu, Y. (2025). The new hallmarks of film-induced tourism amid the post COVID-19 new norm in Southeast Asia. In M. Valeri (Ed.), Film and tourism: Tourism, hospitality & event management (pp. 65-80). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-86874-0_5 (PDF Version).

Liu, Y. (2021). A cultural enterprise: A study of contemporary Bruneian films. In H. M. Y. Ho & D. Deterding (Eds.), Engaging modern Brunei: Research on language, literature and culture (pp. 215-237). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4721-2_13

Liu, Y. (2010). An Industry vs. Independents. In J. Scotton & W. Hachten (Eds.), New Media for a New China (pp. 165–183). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. (PDF Version Here).

Liu, Y. (2009). The Passion of the Director and the Temptation of the Market – a Comparison between Scorsese and Gibson’s Christ Movies. In C. Song & K. Zhao (Eds.), Paper Collections for 80th Anniversary of School of Journalism at Fudan University (pp. 562–275). Shanghai: Fudan University Press.

Published Conference Papers

Liu, Y. (2013). The Oval Sphere vs. the Flat Canvas. Paper presented in the 5th International 3D Summit for Science, Technology, Art and Business (IC3D Conference) organized by 3D Stereo Media in Liège, Belgium, 3–6 December 2013. Published by IEEE Xplore Digital Library (here). DOI: 10.1109/IC3D.2013.6732074. (PDF Version Here).

Selected Film / Video Credits

• A Journey to Brasov (9 min., HD, 2022). A documentary tells the story about three UBD students visiting Brasov, Romania and teaming up with three Romanian students from Transilvania University of Brasov to compete the Dracula Digital 2022 Competition. Screening as opening short film at both the 5th PRISM UBD Short Film Festival in November 2022 and the 5th Dracula International Film Festival on 25 October 2023, which is its European Premiere.   
• 5th PRISM UBD Short Film Festival 2022 Award Ceremony (85 min., HD, 2022). A recorded award gala of the 5th PRISM UBD Short Film Festival that announces all the winners for Best Animation Short Film, Best Documentary Short Film, Best Fiction Short Film, Best Smartphone-made Short Film Award based on professional jury judges’ final decision, as well as the highly anticipated People’s Choice Award based on audience online popular votes on progresifmedia.com (here).
• 4th PRISM UBD Short Film Festival 2021 Award Ceremony (29 min., HD, 2021). A virtual online award gala of the 4th PRISM UBD Short Film Festival that announces all the winners for Best Short Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Actor, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing Award based on professional jury judges’ final decision as well as the highly anticipated People’s Choice Award based on audience online votes on progresifmedia.com (here).
• 1 Square Mile, Shanghai (in production), a documentary feature about a Shanghai-based recording artist Yin Yi and a British visiting artist Richard, their collaborative and comprehensive sound-recording project about environment friendliness and community diversity around the Shanghai South Train Station.
• Connected Projects (18 min. HD, 2011), a documentary about one of the most highlighted interactive trans-media activity involved with 7 local contemporary artists and numerous participatory publics in Auckland, NZ, screening at the Transmedia Documentary Challenge evening (24 October, 2011) and being carried by MINA (Mobile Innovation Network Australasia) – a Trans-media Video Group channel on Vimeo (here).
• The Lake (71 min. DV, 2008), a multi-layer-structured narrative feature film about the environmental preservation issues, selected by the 46th Golden Prague International Television and Film Festival, June 2009.
• Thirteen (12 min. black & white, 16mm, 2001), a short experimental narrative film shot by one long-take: won Robin Eickman Scholarship Award from Cinema Department at San Francisco State University, 2001; screened at Washington DC Independent Film Festival, March 2002 and San Francisco Film Arts Festival, November 2002.
• A Recipe for Love (15 min. x 3 episodes, Beta-SP, 1995), a short docudrama series that won the Beijing Excellent Television Program Award and Beijing Literature and Arts Award – the most prestigious arts award in Beijing, China.

Conferences, Presentations, and Workshops

‘Higher Education-based Film Festivals in Brunei and Dracula Digital 2022,’ presented in (online) ‘Arts and Humanities’ Research Seminar – Emptiness and Exhibition of Intangible Objects, organised by Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia. 30 May, 2025.

‘A Journey to Brasov (9 min. documentary): Cross-cultural Exploration and Collaboration at Dracula Digital Smartphone Filmmaking Competition’ – Asian Premiere (outside Brunei) of the documentary in the Electronic Theater Session in ‘2025 International Conference on Global Cultural and Creative Industries – New Productivity Quality · Economic Drivers · Creative Ecosystems,’ organised by the USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry in Shanghai, China. 28-30 March, 2025.

Liu, Yong. ‘3D’s enhancement of water as the worlding nexus of decolonization and eco-friendliness in Avatar: The way of water. 2023 International Conference on Global Cultural and Creative Industries – Transformation of Global Cultural and Creative Industries in the Digital Civilization Era’, organised by the USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry in Shanghai, China. 9-10 December, 2023.

Liu, Y. & Nechita, F. ‘Project-based learning at dracula digital: a Romanian and Bruneian perspective,’ in Children of the Night International Dracula Congress organised by Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania on Saturday 28 October, 2023.

Fischer, A. & Liu, Y. presented a co-research project ‘Screen Industry Snapshot 2 – the function and impact of feature film production in Brunei’ during 2023 Brunei Content Festival in the atrium of Gadong Mall, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei on Saturday 9 September, 2023.

Liu, Yong. ‘Bruneian vampire and ghost shorts made by UBD students’, in The Children of the Night International Dracula Congress (online) on 20 November 2022.

Liu, Yong. 'Digital Media and Visual Communication', an invited guest lecture for over 50 undergrad students major in Digital Media Programme at Transilvania University of Braşov, Romania, on 20 October 2022.

Liu, Yong. ‘Case study: Islamic realization in the UBD short film sadar.’ Islamic Film Genre Symposium of Brunei Islamic Film Festival 2022. Ruang Hall, Yayasan, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. 12 March, 2022.

Fischer, Alex. & Liu, Yong. ‘Industry snapshot’ – the first data driven study of the Bruneian screen industry in a seminar at Mini Theatre 1, UTH at UBD. 29 June, 2021

Liu, Yong. ‘From gema dari menara to contemporary Brunei cinema.’ 6th International Conference Visuality 2021 (online) organised by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University in Vilnius, Lithuania. 22-23 April, 2021.

Liu, Yong. ‘3D or not? It’s a question, but more like an artistic choice’. 2019 International Conference on Global Cultural and Creative Industries organised by the USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry in Shanghai, China. 21-24 November, 2019.

Liu, Yong. ‘A comparative study of film-induced tourism and cultural promotion in Romania, Indonesia and Malaysia’. International Colloquium of Social Sciences and Communication (ACUM) organised by Transilvania University of Braşov in Braşov, Romania. 17-19 October, 2019.

Liu, Yong. ‘Stereoscopic 3d ontology and narrative engagement’. 5th International Conference Visuality 2019 organised by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University in Vilnius, Lithuania. 25-26 April, 2019.

Liu, Yong. ‘Film induced tourism in Brunei: Perspectives and potentiality’. Malaysia-Brunei Forum 2018 organised by University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. November 2018.

'The Possibility, Reachability and Sustainability of Brunei's Film Tourism Development'. Paper presented in 2018 Australia and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) conference, with the theme of 'Multiple Realities: Fluidity, Hybridity, and Stability in Global Communication', organised by the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 4-6 July 2018.

'From “Dimensional Effects” to Stereoscopic Hyperrealism: The Transformation of Digital 3D Cinematic Aesthetics'. Paper presented in the panel of Technology and Cinema’s Past/Future at ‘Sea Change: Transforming Industries, Screens, Texts’ Conference of the Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (SSAAANZ) organised by Victoria University of Wellington, 23-25 November 2016.

‘Between Depth and Flatness: Shaping Stereoscopic Ontology and Narrative Qualities’. Paper presented in the 26th International Screen Studies Conference at the University of Glasgow, UK, 24-26 June 2016.

‘3D in the Southern Hemisphere – focus on Peter Jackson’s HFR experiment in The Hobbit Trilogy’. Presentation given in the High-Tech Film Forum during the 1st Silk Road International Film Festival in Xi’an, China, 22-23 October 2014.

‘How the Aesthetics of “Dressing Classy/Dancing Cheesy and Producing Universal/Promotion Viral” Stirs the Networked Cosmopolitan World’. Paper presented in New Media and Cultural Transformation: Film, TV, Game and Digital Communication International Conference co-organized by Shanghai University and NUY-Shanghai, Shanghai, China, 8-9 December 2012.

Professional/Pedagogical Media Experience

Associate Producer and Editor for China Crosstalk (30min x 100 episodes, live & pre-taped, 2001- 2004), a live talk show produced by KTSF-CH26 (Lincoln Broadcasting Inc.) and Weston Media, aired nightly through KTSF-CH26 in the Bay Area, USA, and through the International Channel all over the North America.

Programming Assistant (2001-2003) in KTSF-CH26, Lincoln Broadcasting Inc. Responsible for maintaining all the footage in the station library, editing digital news and other satellite TV footage ready for Master Control Room to air, keeping contact with clients to secure incoming programmes on time and checking quality and contents of the programmes to comply with broadcasting standard, etc.

Director/Editor, Film/Television Department and Overseas Department in Beijing Television Station (BTV), July 1992–June 1999. I made hundreds of hours TV programmes, including documentaries, docudramas, TV magazines, TV galas, MVs, dance shows, and English-language instruction programmes.

Coordinator of the Webcast Project for 2007 Shanghai Special Olympics World Summer Games – comprehensive online news coverage of all the games for the global audience conducted by over 200 students from China and America. I was responsible for coordinating student crews from four Chinese universities in Shanghai e.g. Fudan University, Tongji University, East China Normal University and students from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, USA.

Serving one of the jury members for student competition in the categories of Entertainment TV Shows and Short Narrative Works in Shanghai International Student Screen Festival – a sub-programme of the worldwide A-class 13th Shanghai International Film Festival (2010).