About the Director
Graduated from the Directing Department of the Beijing Film Academy. The student short Kraft Paper (2011) won the first Sina Micro Film Competition. The graduation film July Fire (2012) was one of the earlier works to explore a small-town aesthetic of southern China. After completing a master's degree, has worked on films, documentaries and multimedia storytelling. Worked on the film Mr. Tree and the CCTV documentary series Where Do We Come From, then founded Yiti Pictures; in 2017 produced the feature Ghost in the Mountains, selected for the Panorama section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. Directed the screen-interface short Unlucky Koi (2020), which received a Jury Special Recommendation in the ultra-short section of the FIRST International Film Festival. The work explores the audiovisual medium itself, stays attentive to contemporary cultural phenomena and seeks a stylistic balance between genre elements and personal expression.