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 and a fellow at Athena Writers Lab for her sci-fi feature script Transcender.
Her short films highlight female and Asian perspectives and have been selected by Asian American International Film Festival, New Faces New Voices, ("Sink"), New York Shorts International Film Festival ("Pier 35") and so on. She also received support from the Panavision New Filmmaker Program, NYC Women’s Fund, and the Sloan Foundation. She was a TV writing fellow in Soo Hugh’s Thousand Miles Project launched with UCP. As a transcultural filmmaker Raina seeks to explore the fluidity of social boundaries, to investigate the repressed and the unspeakable. Formerly a nonfiction writer and a journalist, she has published in various magazines and newspapers, such as The Catapult.
Email: rainayang0818@gmail.com