Known for Camera
Norm Li is a Canadian cinematographer. Known for his work on the film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019), Li won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography. Li is most noted for his work on the film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open, for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020. He was previously nominated in the same category at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018 for Never Steady, Never Still, and won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Photography in a Documentary Program or Series at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016 for Tricks on the Dead: The Story of the Chinese Labour Corps in WWI. His other credits have included the films Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010), Below Zero (2011), In Their Skin (2012), Afflicted (2013), Cabin Fever: Patient Zero (2014), Edge of Winter (2016), Hollow in the Land (2017) and Same Old (2022).
Birthplace
St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada
Filmography
30 films


Lucky Lu
2026 · 1h 43m
country: United States
A delivery driver in New York City discovers his e-bike has been stolen. With his family en route after many years apart, Lu must contend with a community that has turned its back on him while he tries to replace the only thing promising to keep his family afloat.


Blue Sun Palace
2025 · 1h 57m
country: United States
Bound by lives of arduous labor and shared displacement in Queens's Chinese community, two migrants form an unlikely bond following a sudden loss as they journey through grief together in search of family.


Volem la pilota
2024 · 7m
country: Spain
Do you remember your first ball?' 'Did you imagine that such an innocent object would make you go so far?' . With this childish voiceover and the dark screen, with a silhouette that gives a glimpse of a ball, opens 'Volem la Pilota' (We want the ball) ; the spot of the 125th birthday of FC Barcelona that was born from the Manifesto and that, more than a spot, is an artistic piece of very well 8 minutes long, directed by the prestigious advertising and narrative director internationally recognized Leigh Powis.


Seagrass
2024 · 1h 55m
country: Canada
A Japanese-Canadian woman grapples with the death of her mother as she brings her family to a retreat. When her relationship with her husband begins to affect the children's emotional security, the family is changed forever.


Something You Said Last Night
2023 · 1h 36m
country: Canada
An aspiring twenty-something writer accompanies her equally reluctant younger sister and their deliriously happy parents on vacation where she navigates her family's expectations and her own desires.


Same Old
2022 · 15m
country: United States
After his e-bike is stolen, a food delivery driver in New York City comes to terms with the fragility of his life in America.


Beau
2021 · 16m
country: United States
Beau, an emerging artist, is about to unveil her latest installation. Her girlfriend Paloma is a devoted supporter. Her final breakthrough hinges on the success of this piece, and soon this pressure causes a rift in the two women's relationship.


Cosmic
2020 · 13m
country: Canada
A woman and man in their early sixties try to cure loneliness on a second date. However, when the man eagerly convinces the apprehensive woman to sneak into an abandoned bowling alley, the discord in their personalities becomes apparent.


The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
2019 · 1h 46m
country: Canada
When Áila encounters a young Indigenous woman, barefoot and crying in the rain on the side of a busy street, she soon discovers that this young woman, Rosie, has just escaped a violent assault at the hands of her boyfriend. Áila decides to bring Rosie home with her and over the course of the evening, the two navigate the aftermath of this traumatic event.


Last Sermon at George's Creek
2018 · 15m
country: Unknown
George's Creek Baptist Church is ending. There is no new generation to inherit the church. For the elderly congregation, their stories are coming to an end as well. The church's pastor, Earl, experiences his own passing echoed in the degeneration of his wife's Alzheimers.


Broken Bunny
2018 · 11m
country: Unknown
A young girl’s moral compass and perspective on mortality are challenged when she tries to save a brutally wounded rabbit.


Hollow in the Land
2017 · 1h 32m
country: Canada
With their father in prison for murder, siblings Alison and Brandon are instantly considered suspects when a string of killings plagues their town, and they must fight to clear their names.


Never Steady, Never Still
2017 · 1h 50m
country: Canada
A mother struggles to take control of her life in the face of advanced Parkinson's disease, while her son battles his sexual and emotional identity amongst the violence of Alberta's oil field work camps.


Kuso
2017 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles's worst earthquake nightmare. Travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived.


Edge of Winter
2016 · 1h 29m
country: United States
When two brothers are stranded by a brutal winter storm with an unpredictable father they barely know, the boys begin to suspect their supposed protector may be their biggest threat.


Air
2015 · 1h 34m
country: Canada
In the near future, breathable air is nonexistent. Virtually all of humanity has disappeared, and those chosen to reestablish society reside in a controlled state of suspended animation. Two engineers tasked with guarding the last hope for mankind struggle to preserve their own sanity and lives while administering to the vital task at hand.


Pour Retourner
2014 · 14m
country: Canada
A talented prison chef is paroled to a world that does not want him.


Afflicted
2014 · 1h 25m
country: Canada
Two friends' tour of Europe takes a dark turn when one of them contracts a mysterious illness. They race to find out what it is and how to cure it before the sickness consumes him completely.


Cabin Fever: Patient Zero
2014 · 1h 31m
country: United States
A group of friends head to a deserted Caribbean island for a surprise overnight bachelor party only to discover that the island isn't deserted. It's actually the home to a secret medical facility. Not only that, there's something wrong with the water surrounding the island...


Haunting Melissa
2013 · 3h 5m
country: United States
Melissa mysteriously disappears when she seeks out the truth behind her mother's death in an isolated farmhouse.


Tasmanian Devils
2013 · 1h 31m
country: Canada
Tasmanian Devil Synopsis: Danica McKellar (“The Wonder Years,” “The West Wing”) and Olympic speed skating champion Apolo Ohno take on a deadly mythical beast in the new Syfy Saturday Original Movie “Tasmanian Devil.”


In Their Skin
2012 · 1h 36m
country: Canada
A couple and their young son retreat to their woodland vacation home, only to face sinister neighbors who intend to kill them and steal their identities.


Pressed
2011 · 1h 45m
country: Canada
Brian, (Luke Goss, DEATH RACE 2, HELLBOY II) is desperately trying to seek a "quick fix" business deal that will put him back on top financially after being let go from his executive position at one of the top investment firms. Brian decides to go "all in", investing the rest of his savings into a short-term drug deal that would allow him to preserve his high-end life style. When two recluse teenagers unknowingly intercept the illicit drug money hidden in the back seat of a car, Brian’s deal is botched. He soon finds himself in a desperate situation as he owes a merciless drug lord the missing money. At the same time the teenagers learn that they've stolen from the wrong people. What follows is a twisted tale of greed, deceit, murder and wealth. In this Crime-thriller, three relationships collide in a fantastic saga where only one will get out alive.


Beyond the Black Rainbow
2010 · 1h 50m
country: Canada
In 1983, a young mute woman with psychic abilities is held captive within the Arboria Institute, a secluded futuristic facility overseen by a sinister doctor with an unraveling mind and a growing obsession with her.


Altitude
2010 · 1h 30m
country: Canada
After a mysterious malfunction sends their small plane climbing out of control, a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends find themselves trapped in a deadly showdown with a supernatural force.