Raina Liwen Yang
Writer/Director
Raina Yang (she/her) is a Chinese writer and director based in New York City. She is currently an MFA candidate in Film Directing at Columbia University.
Her short films have been selected by Asian American International Film Festival, New Faces New Voices, New York Shorts International Film Festival and so on. She also received support from the Panavision New Filmmaker Program, NYC Women’s Fund, and the Sloan Foundation. She was a a fellow at Athena Writers Lab for her sci-fi feature script Transcender and a TV writing fellow in Soo Hugh’s Thousand Miles Project launched with UCP. Also a nonfiction writer and a journalist, she has published in various magazines and newspapers, such as The Catapult. Raina is committed to resurrecting individual histories from repression while shaping an empathy-driven future beyond systematic control.
Email: raina.yang@columbia.edu