Cathy Yan
Grad Film Alum Cathy Yan has been selected to join the Purple List as its first president.
Yan is the director of films including Marvel’s Birds Of Prey starring Margot Robbie and of the forthcoming thriller The Gallerist starring Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega. She was selected for the Purple List herself in 2018 with her debut feature Dead Pigs.
“A successful debut feature is a critical milestone in any filmmaker’s career, and the Purple List was an instrumental step in finding support for my first feature, Dead Pigs,” Yan says.
As president, her role will be to amplify the exposure of the Purple List filmmakers, to mentor them and to strengthen their links “with the right industry veterans and the broader marketplace".
The Purple List was created in 2012 by NYU graduate film alumni Ashim Bhalla and Shandor Garrison. Since then, 19 completed and distributed films have emerged from the Purple List including Chloe Zhao’s Songs My Brothers Taught Me and Ash Mayfair’s The Third Wife.
Read more at Screen Daily.