Yuan Yuan is a Chinese writer-director based in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of NYU’s Graduate Film Program, a Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs fellow, a Berlinale Talents Tokyo alumni, a recipient of the Princess Grace Award, and the SFFILM Rainin Grant.
Her short Heading South won at the DGA Student Film Awards, Palm Springs ShortFest, and Hong Kong International Film Festival. The project also won at HAF Film Lab and was selected for the upcoming HAF Film Financing Forum. Her latest, When Winter Comes, supported by the Spike Lee Production Fund, received a Special Mention at the 2024 FIRST International Film Festival.
At MacDowell, Yuan revised the screenplay of her first feature film Heading South alongside collaborator Baolier Huang. The project, a story is about a Mongolian girl who leaves the steppe for school in the city, was previously selected for Berlinale Talents Tokyo Next Master Talents Program.
Portrait by Ming Jue Hu
