When a K-pop trainee discovers her agency is literally vampiric — harvesting blood from failures to enhance the chosen — she plans her escape. But the treatments that made her shine have rewritten her biology. Without them, she'll die.
GLASS SKIN is a body horror thriller about the seduction of becoming someone else, and the terrifying reality of what grows back once you shed your skin… A struggling K-pop trainee joins an elite agency run by a charismatic white creative director obsessed with K-beauty. But the promised "guaranteed debut" hides a horrifying truth: trainees' blood is harvested for treatments that grant flawless skin and superhuman performance – and she’s already addicted.
This feature combines The Substance's beauty-horror along with Black Swan's intoxicating descent and Get Out's unflinching look at bodies as commodities. GLASS SKIN is an indictment of the beauty industry's extraction machine, asking what happens when survival requires erasing yourself – and when the only way out is deeper in.
Liz Fields is an Asian-Australian-American writer and filmmaker who has lived in and traveled to 40 different countries across six continents. A Chinese adoptee raised by Australians in South East Asia, Liz has spent her life chasing stories that highlight the complex emotions surrounding cultural displacement and characters seeking their identity, no matter the cost.
Her work across film and TV has earned her numerous awards and accolades, including a Gracie Award, a GLAAD Nomination, two James Beard Media Awards, and Television Academy Honors, which recognizes exceptional programs and their producers who have leveraged the power of television to fuel social change.
A former journalist and Columbia J-school grad, Liz first developed her reporting chops in the newsrooms of ABC and VICE, where she interviewed everyone from spies and drug dealers to preachers and insurgent groups. In 2016, Liz documented the insanity of the modern American condition as a presidential campaign embed, and went on to write, direct, and produce stories for HBO, Netflix, Hulu, PBS, and more.
Liz is a graduate of the New Writers Fellowship with CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) and was featured on Austin Film Festival’s 15 Screenwriters to Watch list in 2022. Her episodic scripts have received finalist laurels from multiple major script competitions, including the Austin Film Festival, Slamdance, PAGE and more. Liz’s first feature, Belonging, won Atlanta Film Festival’s 2024 feature screenplay award and third prize at the CineStory Foundation Feature Fellowship awards.
Liz brings the same narrative ambition to audio, creating and directing original podcast series that span genres, including "Hyperdrive," a sci-fi thriller erotica starring Manny Jacinto, and "Imperfect Match," a rom-com series set across Italy (written while working in Rome), starring Arden Cho.
Liz lives in Los Angeles and is represented by Zero Gravity Management.
