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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 known for Birds of Prey (2020), Dead Pigs (2018) and According to My Mother (2016).
- Producer, Director, Writer
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Feb 10, 2021 · In March 2013, then-journalist Cathy Yan stumbled across an odd story about thousands of dead pigs floating down the Huangpu River in China. She’d already started film school by then, and the...
- 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
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 films...
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...
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Mar 24, 2020 · Yan, 33, talked about her experience being recruited for the “Birds of Prey” team, the roller-coaster ride of its theatrical release and the film’s celebration of breakfast sandwiches.