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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
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.
- James Grebey
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...
- Alexandra Schwartz
Feb 12, 2021 · In our Cathy Yan interview, the Birds of Prey director reflects on the making of her acclaimed first film, which is finally seeing a release.
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Jan 28, 2020 · A former journalist, the 33-year-old Yan grew up outside Washington, D.C., on a varied cinematic diet ranging from “The Lion King” and “Batman Returns” to groundbreaking Chinese...
