Nelicia is the younger sister to an autistic brother whom she has unrequited love for, and the daughter of two melodramatic Chinese-Singaporeans who seem to have emerged from a Latino soap opera. Unfortunately this gave rise to her existential crisis. Fortunately, making films is her salvation. She used to be a National Fencer for Singapore, competing at the Asian Games in 2010. She will never admit to anyone that she only wanted to be a fencer because she loved The Lord of the Rings and the Star Wars movies growing up.
Her short film Freeze, about her relationship with her brother, premiered at the 38th Clermont-Ferrand international Short Film Festival in 2016 and went on to screen at over 70 festivals around the world, including the 53rd Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, Odense, and Busan. She graduated in 2018 with an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University in New York.
Recently, she completed principal photography on her first feature film, Pierce, a fencing film about a younger brother's love for his enigmatic older brother. It was a Singapore/Taiwan/Poland co-production that was supported by Hubert Bals, Purin Pictures and the Polish Film Institute.
She lives in Singapore, where she spends most of her time trying not to go insane from writing her scripts. In her work, she asks herself the same question over and over again - What is love?
生長於文化語言多元化的新加坡，劉慧伶自小就著迷於說故事。她在13歲時就導演了MV，并在全國競賽中獲得第二名。在為新加坡西洋劍國家代表隊效力六年，并参加了2010年廣州亞運会後，二十歲的她退役，开始專注於電影創作。慧伶在紐約哥倫比雅大學攻讀了電影導演碩士。《凍》是她編導的第二部劇情短片，2016年初曾在法國克萊蒙費朗國際短片電影節首映, 接著在台北金馬影展，釜山國際短片電影節，布魯塞爾國際短片電影節, 歐登塞國際電影節，新加坡國際電影節，并陆续在多个世界影视节中播放。慧伶剛拍完了她的一部長片《刺心切骨》，由新加坡台灣與波蘭的國際國際合制。
由于受到与患自闭症的哥哥與父母親相处的影响，慧伶的影片一直追問：《愛》到底是什麼？
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