Writer, Filmmaker
Daphne Joyce Wu is a Midwest-born and raised student writer, filmmaker, and actress studying Film & Media Studies and Economics at Yale University. She has directed four short films: drama Black Coffee (2024), comedy The Very Sad Tale of Gerald Humm (2024), rom-com Heartbreak Avenue (2023), experimental Yin Yang (2023), and a film for the YSO Halloween Show, Frosh’d and Found.
This year, Daphne wrapped her debut feature thriller film titled Lux et Veritas, and is completing her historical feature screenplay, Under the Ginkgo Trees, as her Yale thesis. For post-graduation, she received a Parker Huang Fellowship to direct a feature documentary on the Chinese diaspora.
Daphne is a fellow at FilmIndependent x HieronyVision, Emma Bowen Foundation, T. Howard Foundation, and The Gotham. She has interned at United Talent Agency, Paramount, ACE Entertainment, Toluca Pictures, Gracie Films and Lionsgate.
Black Coffee
two exes meet for the first time in a long time at a noisy coffee shop in brooklyn, nyc.
short film | 07:33
directed and edited by daphne joyce wu
written by abby asmuth, co-starring cameron jones
dp’d by bronwen pailthorpe
selected for the ucla shorttakes festival and ezra stiles film festival
Frosh’d & Found
During the night of the Yale First Year Formal, four suite mates realize that their senior idols aren’t as cool as they thought.
feature-length film | 1:08:19
directed and edited by daphne joyce wu
The Very Sad Tale of Gerald Humm
after gerald humm gets broken up with by his girlfriend, he embarks on a quest with his best friend, Alfonso, to figure out why.
short film | 07:54
directed and edited by daphne joyce wu
color graded by bronwen pailthorpe
selected for the aster film festival, festival angaelica, and ezra stiles film festival
Heartbreak Avenue
a first year student at yale falls in love and gets her heart broken the very next day.
short film | 22:51
directed and edited by daphne joyce wu
produced by abby asmuth
dp’d by bronwen pailthorpe
selected for the yale student film festival and festival angaelica
Yin Yang
directed by daphne joyce wu
selected for flint youth film festival and yale student film festival
Shoulders (2024)
cinematography by daphne joyce wu, in collaboration with abby asmuth | abraham payne | adam calibresi | bronwen pailthorpe [director] | eli berliner | eve cohen | terri corigliano | thomasin schmults |
How to Mind Your Mother (2023)
cinematography by daphne joyce wu, in collaboration with abby asmuth | abraham payne | adam calabresi | antonia baudoin | bronwen pailthorpe [director] | eli berliner | eve cohen | harper love | linden skalak | robert gao | thomasin schmults
Roughly Seven Minutes (2023)
cinematography by daphne joyce wu, in collaboration with abby asmuth | bronwen pailthorpe [director] | lydia watt | kellina brennan
