DEAD PIGS
Available via Mubi on February 12, 2021
SYNOPSIS: While thousands of dead pigs mysteriously float down the Yangtze River, five people cross paths as they search for their place in a rapidly transforming modern China. Based on true events.
DIRECTED BY: Cathy Yan
Cathy Yan is a filmmaker based in New York City, born in China and raised between Hong Kong and Washington, DC. She received her MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business and MFA at the Tisch Graduate Film Program. Her directorial debut, the short film LAST NIGHT, premiered at the Shanghai Int’l Film Festival. Producing credits include the feature film, COLOR OF TIME, as well as an upcoming feature documentary with director Kevin Macdonald (LAST KING OF SCOTLAND). Previously, she was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in New York, Hong Kong and Beijing. She was one of the youngest writers in the paper’s history to pen multiple front-page stories. Cathy graduated from Princeton University, magna cum laude, with a bachelor’s degree in the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs.
Warner Brothers and DC Entertainment selected Cathy to direct BIRDS OF PREY: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, produced by and starring Margot Robbie and released on February 7, 2020.