Filmmaker. Brandon Li. Three-time Travel Video Awards-winning filmmaker Brandon Li has spent years traveling the world and capturing some truly stunning shots. His video seoul_wave (above) is the 2019 winner for the Best Wanderlust category, embodying and inspiring the spirit of travel, is a sweeping and humanist look at Seoul, South Korea.
BL: Travel filmmaking is kind of a weird, in-between genre that didn’t even exist just a few years ago. It’s not quite fiction, it’s not quite docu, and it’s not exactly vlogging or music video. It’s more like a gentrification of home movies. And it has become insanely trendy over the last few years.