Photography by Weston McGhee
about
Lily Yasuda is a Japanese American filmmaker from Boise, Idaho.
She wrote, produced and starred in the micro-budget feature film LIKE LOVE, and
made her directorial debut with the narrative short NICE GUY, which premiered at Treefort Film Fest in 2024.
Lily grew up surrounded by theater, and currently serves as the Festival Director for Boise Contemporary Theater's BIPOC Playwrights Festival, which seeks to incubate new works by emerging voices of color. She spent most of her adolescence reciting bits of Aaron Sorkin dialogue, and considers herself an expert on both walking and talking.
Though she wears many hats, writing is her preferred medium.
She currently resides in Chicago.
Cinematography by Aaron Seller
like love (2020)
82 minutes
Directed by Michael Wolfe
Written by Lily Yasuda
Starring Lily Yasuda & Joseph Bricker
LIKE LOVE chronicles the intensely complicated, deeply flawed, and totally unintentional friendship between a boy and a girl.
Harper is a killjoy with an impressive knack for finding the worst in everyone. Enter Jackson: serial monogamist, idealist, and king of attracting the least available person in the room.
After a series of (un)fortunate circumstances prompts them to become roommates, a friendship is born. Yet their closeness inevitably sends Jackson down the rabbit hole of attraction, pushing Harper to make a choice: force herself to fall in love, or risk losing her best friend.
Savage, ridiculous, and possibly even a little romantic, LIKE LOVE is WHEN HARRY MET SALLY for a new generation, an ode to waffles, and a love letter to anyone who found the strength to say “I don’t.”
