Kay Niuyue Zhang

My name is Kay Niuyue Zhang and I am a director and producer based in Los Angeles. After graduating from Duke University with a Bachelor's degree in International Comparative Studies, and working as a bilingual Production Coordinator for a year, I decided to pursue my long standing love for films and filmmaking and attended USC School of Cinematic Arts for an MFA program in Film Production.

My short film “Mother in the Mist” now distributed by Amazon Prime Video for VOD, and aired at PBS for cable, was awarded the DGA student Award Grand Jury Prize for Best Women Filmmaker, and the Jury Prize at the Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the 75th Festival de Cannes. I also produce extensively, my previous work winning the Gold Medalist of the 47th Student Academy Awards, and Special Jury Prize at the BAFTA Student Film Awards 2021. My projects are supported by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, FOX Fellowship Endowment Fund, Lisa Lu Foundation, Warner Brothers’ feature project with USC and several other generous funds.

While deepening my craft as a director producer, I now work at Range Media Partners now as a Talent Management Associate, in service of clients such as M Night Shyamalan, Misha Green, Monica Barbaro and Halle Barry.

My creativity is inspired by my experience as an international citizen who constantly crosses borders both physically and culturally. Films that reflect nuanced emotions and struggles of diverse children and women evoke my deepest empathy. Thus I surround my creative world with the subtle and sensitive experiences of marginalized and diasporic children and women. 

My family named me“Niuyue”, which means New York in its literal translation. I always wonder why they decided to name me New York, and have new answers every year. Interestingly, “New York” is settling down in Los Angeles now, but the vibrance, creativity, embracing, spearheading power resides in me where ever I go.

CV upon request
zhangniuyue@gmail.com

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