Past Recipients

Cathy Yan

2018 Recipient (Dead Pigs)

Cathy Yan received a dual MFA in filmmaking and an MBA at New York University and a BA at Princeton. Her feature film debut, Dead Pigs premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition and won the Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting. It has gone on to win awards at festivals around the world. She recently directed Margot Robbie in a girl gang movie with the character Harley Quinn based on the Birds of Prey comic books for DC / Warner Brothers. Previously, she was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and was one of the youngest in the paper’s history to pen multiple front-page stories.