Yinan Wang 王一男 is an ethnographic documentary filmmaker/photographer. He is a candidate for an MFA in Film & Media Arts at Temple University, where he is a University Fellowship and TAship recipient. His works has screened at different venues in the US, France, Austria, Slovenia, India, China. His feature film Yen Ching, a verité documentary taking an intimate look at the how a typical Chinese restaurant owner, named Chen, and his children, practice their very different American dreams, won 2018 HBO’s Emerging Voice award.

Other work includes Kalagutage and The Salt Well Naxi People. Both of these highly regarded ethnographic studies document the day-to-day lives and cultures of Indigenous peoples in China. Nakhi People of Eya (Gold Award Winner in 2009 Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival); The Deer Queen (Special Mention of Cream City Cinema Jury Award in 2017 Milwaukee Film Festival); and San Pu (a 18 episodes commissioned documentary produced for the Third National Survey on Cultural Heritage).