Mycelium Media proudly announces the upcoming production of Littora (a working production title, subject to change), an original speculative feature film that will begin with the production of a pilot segment to launch the full-length project. Developed as a key step in the company’s long-term creative strategy, the pilot will introduce the film’s conceptual framework and narrative language while laying the groundwork for future expansion into a complete feature. Littora brings together a creative team whose previous collaborations have emphasized emotionally driven storytelling and formally innovative cinematic work.
At the helm of the production is Producer Yi Wang, who joins the project to guide its development and execution from inception through completion. Recognized for her ability to integrate creative vision with operational precision, Wang will oversee both the artistic and logistical dimensions of the production. Her role emphasizes coordination across departments while maintaining close alignment with the project’s thematic intentions. By bridging the work of directors, designers, and production teams, she ensures that narrative purpose and technical execution evolve in concert. Under her leadership, Littora is structured as a collaborative artistic system in which conceptual ambition is supported by disciplined production methodology.
Written by Liz Mealey and co-directed by Mealey and Xinhao Wang, Littora is set within a speculative coastal community shaped by interdependence and shared responsibility. Serving also as Director of Photography, Mealey brings a unified visual and narrative approach to the project. The story envisions a society organized around mutual care in response to environmental and social instability. Through intimate character perspectives, the film explores how individuals sustain empathy, accountability, and belonging when survival is no longer an individual pursuit but a collective one. Rather than presenting speculation as spectacle, the project situates its imagined world within recognizable emotional realities, grounding its vision in the rhythms of everyday human connection.
Liz Mealey is a Los Angeles–based director of photography, writer, and filmmaker originally from the East Coast. She earned her MFA in cinematography from the American Film Institute Conservatory in Los Angeles in 2024. Prior to attending AFI, she lensed and co-produced two New York independent, award-winning features: the documentary More Than Academics and the dark comedy Broke Boi. Since graduating from AFI, Mealey has received multiple awards for cinematography for The Apple Picker’s Son, on which Yi Wang, who goes by the professional name Historia, also served as a key member of the production office, as well as for Opalescent, a poetic short film she wrote and co-directed, and on which Historia served as Producer. Historia has collaborated with Mealey across multiple projects, reflecting an ongoing creative partnership grounded in shared narrative values and production practice. In 2025, Mealey founded Mycelium Media to produce her own works while uplifting the voices of collaborators across disciplines. As an artist-activist, Mealey is committed to stories that inspire radical imagination and challenge conventional narrative forms. More information about Mealey’s work can be found at https://www.elizabethmealey.com/.
The pilot segment of Littora will function as the project’s initial narrative and aesthetic foundation. It will establish the film’s tonal identity, visual grammar, and thematic concerns while testing the structural relationships between its characters and environment. This phased development approach reflects Mycelium Media’s commitment to process-driven filmmaking, allowing creative ideas to be refined through practice before entering full-scale production. The pilot will also serve as a platform for expanding the project’s scope through continued collaboration and audience engagement.
Through Littora, Mycelium Media advances its mission to produce work that bridges speculative inquiry with emotional authenticity. The company’s development model prioritizes long-term artistic relationships and shared authorship, emphasizing projects that investigate how communities form, persist, and adapt. In this context, Littora represents a continuation of the studio’s interest in world-building as an extension of character psychology, where environments reflect internal states and social dynamics rather than existing solely as narrative backdrops.
Yi Wang’s role within the project exemplifies this philosophy of integrated production leadership. Acting as both logistical architect and narrative advocate, she supports a creative process in which structure enables experimentation rather than constraining it. Her stewardship reinforces the project’s emphasis on coherence between concept and execution, ensuring that artistic risk is matched by organizational clarity.
Littora continues Mycelium Media’s pursuit of cinema that invites audiences into layered, immersive narratives grounded in human experience. By situating its speculative elements within a framework of relational ethics and collective survival, the film seeks to expand contemporary approaches to independent science fiction and socially engaged storytelling.
About Mycelium Media
Mycelium Media is a film production company based in Los Angeles, California, dedicated to innovative and collaborative filmmaking that bridges artistic experimentation with emotionally authentic storytelling. Through partnerships with visionary directors and interdisciplinary creators, the company produces works that explore the evolving relationships between people, place, and imagination. Mycelium Media’s projects emphasize collective authorship, speculative inquiry, and cinematic environments where social systems and inner lives intersect.
Website: myceliummediallc.com (coming soon)
Contact:
Liz Mealey
Founder and Director/Cinematographer
Mycelium Media LLC
Email: myceliummediallc@pm.me
