Raina Liwen Yang is a Chinese writer, director, and producer based between New York and Guangzhou. She received her MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University and holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Cognitive Science and Film from the University of California, Berkeley.

Her work centers on encounters between people whose beliefs and ways of life are in tension, often unfolding through relationships shaped by contradiction and unspoken desires. Drawing from her experience living between countries and communities, she is interested in how social and environmental instability reshapes the ways people imagine the future—and who gets to belong within it.

Her most recent short film, shot in Newfoundland, Canada, received both the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production Grant and the PictureNL Film Fund. Her films have screened at festivals including the Hamptons International Film Festival, the Asian American International Film Festival, New Faces New Voices, and the New York Shorts International Film Festival. She has also received support from the Panavision New Filmmaker Program, the American Association of University Women, and the NYC Women’s Fund.

Raina has participated in development programs including the 2024 Athena Writers Lab and the 2025 BendFilm Basecamp. She is currently developing her first feature, Live Catch, with the 2026 TorinoFilmLab Green Narratives program.

Outside of filmmaking, she has a strong interest in creative nonfiction and immersive, research-driven storytelling, and once spent thirty days sea kayaking and backpacking in Alaska wilderness without prior camping experience.

杨丽雯是一位活跃于纽约与广州之间的中国编剧、导演。她毕业于哥伦比亚大学电影导演专业（MFA），并在加州大学伯克利分校获得认知科学与电影双学士学位。

她的创作关注不同信念与生活方式之间的冲突，以及人与人之间难以言说的欲望。基于其跨国家与多元社群的生活经验，她长期探讨社会与环境不稳定如何影响个体对未来的想象与信仰体系。

她最新完成的短片在加拿大纽芬兰拍摄，获得Alfred P. Sloan Foundation制作基金与PictureNL Film Fund资助。其作品曾入选包括汉普顿国际电影节、亚美国际电影节、New Faces New Voices以及纽约国际短片电影节等多个影展，并获得Panavision New Filmmaker Program、American Association of University Women以及NYC Women’s Fund等机构支持。

她曾入选多个创作与发展项目，包括2024 Athena Writers Lab与2025 BendFilm Basecamp。目前，她正在开发首部长片项目《Live Catch》，并参与2026 意大利都灵电影实验室 Green Narratives项目。

在电影创作之外，她对非虚构写作和沉浸式探险充满热情——比如曾在毫无露营经验的情况下，在阿拉斯加野外进行过为期三十天的海上皮划艇与徒步旅行。