Xinyan Yu

Xinyan is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker based in Washington DC. She has directed and produced content for international broadcasters including BBC, NHK, PBS NOVA and PBS Frontline. Her feature documentary debut Made in Ethiopia premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2024, and won the Special Jury Mention for Documentary Feature. Xinyan is a New America National Fellow, a Firelight Media Doc Lab fellow, a Brown Girls Doc Mafia Sustainable Artist fellow and an alumnus of the Yaddo Residency.