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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
Feb 16, 2021 · Cathy Yan is a Chinese-born American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Yan worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal in New York, Hong Kong and Beijing before turning to filmmaking.
Feb 4, 2020 · We caught up with Cathy Yan, the director of Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn. The film is a high octane, comic romp through a villain filled Gotham with fried...
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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...
