Yan Zhu
Specialties: Film, Documentaries, Advertising
Region: Asia
Languages: English, Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese
Yan always has passion for filmmaking. After finishing film study in Europe, she returned to her homeland, China, to pursue her career in the rapid developing film industry.
She has been working for Practice Productions Shanghai in the past ten years, where she started her long collaboration with award winning director Conrad Clark. She has gained several credits so far, including producer of UK/China coproduction feature film A Fallible Girl, which was selected by Rotterdam International Film Festival and won Best Feature Film at Gulf Film Festival 2013; associate producer of UK/UAE feature film Henna, which won Best Director at Emirates Film Competition 2008; producer of UK/China coproduction feature film Soul Carriage, which won Best New Director at San Sebastian Film Festival 2007.
She also has worked on corporate documentaries and commercials for brands such as Buick, Tianping Car Insurance, Namchow group.
For the past two years she has been living in Japan and working as freelance producer.