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Cathy Y. Yan is a Chinese-born American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Her films include the comedy-drama film Dead Pigs (2018) and Birds of Prey (2020), the eighth installment of the DC Extended Universe .
Cathy Yan is a filmmaker who has worked on Birds of Prey, Dead Pigs, Succession and more. She started as a Wall Street Journal reporter and has won several awards for her short films.
- Producer, Director, Writer
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Feb 10, 2021 · Cathy Yan is the first Asian woman to direct a superhero movie, but she started with a Chinese satire about dead pigs. Learn how her diverse background and unique perspective shaped her career and her films.
- Ella Kemp
Mar 24, 2020 · “Birds of Prey” was also a breakthrough for the director Cathy Yan, who was hired on the strength of her independent 2018 feature debut, “Dead Pigs,” and who was the rare woman working in ...
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- Dave Itzkoff
Feb 5, 2020 · Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), which hits theaters on Friday, was a long time coming, but for director Cathy Yan, things happened very quickly. Yan had just ...
- James Grebey
Jan 28, 2020 · Just months after Cathy Yan ’s feature directing debut, Shanghai-set ensemble comedy “Dead Pigs,” made a big splash at Sundance in 2018, the Chinese-born filmmaker landed a gig helming a ...
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Mar 2, 2020 · Cathy Yan, the director of “Birds of Prey,” the new DC Comics movie, starring Margot Robbie as the anarchic antiheroine Harley Quinn, became a big-studio filmmaker the same way that Hemingway ...