Xinyan Yu
October 30, 2021
Xinyan Yu is a journalist and filmmaker based in Washington, DC. She has been producing, filming and editing news features and short documentaries at international media outlets for nearly a decade. Her 23-min BBC documentary China’s Science Revolution won the 2015 BBC Storytelling Fund and was Highly Commended for Excellent Online Production at the 2016 AIB Awards. Her short film for South China Morning Post, Fighting Fentanyl: the Drug from China Destroying American Lives won the Gold Prize for Best Use of Online Video at the 2019 WAN-IFRA Asian Digital Media Awards. Made in Ethiopia is her feature documentary debut.
