Yuen Yan Ting [cn/nl]

Yan Ting Yuen was born in Hong Kong, China. At the age of 5 her parents moved to Europe, where she grew up and received her education. She graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a masters degree in Communication Sciences.
After assisting in several film- and television productions Yuen made her director’s debut in 2001 with the short documentary ‘Chin.Ind.: Life behind the serving hatch’ which was nominated for the National Dutch Film Award. Her second film is the feature documentary ‘Yang Ban Xi, the 8 model works’, which premiered at the Sundance Film festival 2005, in the world documentary competition.
Yuen is always searching for new ways of telling stories using and mixing different genres of film, documentary and beyond. She finds a lot of her inspiration in the diversity of Asian cultures.