Yi “Sanchez” Yang
Cinema & Stories

Writer – director – producer – editor – AI filmmaker based in New York.
Stories that hit hard. Cinema that feels new.

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02 — Producer

Producing

2023
Two Lost Brothers
Short Film · Drama · Dir: Stanley Leung · Producer
Two Lost Brothers
A Chinese migrant worker spends his life savings to travel to America in search of his younger brother — separated from him during China's One-Child Policy era.
★ Best Student Short — Oakland Film Festival
2025
Birdwatchers
Short Film · Horror · Dir: G. Gotham Smith · Producer
Birdwatchers
Under the pretense of an owl prowl, three early-teens go searching for a local legendary ghost, rumored to have reappeared.
Festival circuit — submissions open
2025
Dai Lik
Short Film · Drama · Dir: Christopher Yang · Producer
Dai Lik
When a Chinese-American teenager's football aspirations clash with his immigrant mother's vision of security through education, a family confrontation forces them both to reconcile their different definitions of success.
In post-production
2026
Rewritten
Short Film · Drama · Dir: Ziyi Hu · Producer
Rewritten
A female hacker takes revenge on the men in power who caused the death of her partner, a Yaoi author — and the fates of those involved will be rewritten.
In post-production
2026
Life on Venus
Short Film · Drama · Dir: Sydney Tyson · Producer
Life on Venus
High school besties Stella and Eris have a sleepover after an intense dance audition. Tensions rise after they start drinking.
In post-production
In Progress
2026
Deliverance of the Bee
Short Film · Drama · Dir: Huifang Wang · Producer
Deliverance of the Bee
Fin, chasing an ideal life as thirty draws near, drifts step by step into solitude and weightlessness. Only by untying the wishes spoken through others can she slip free from the web — and take flight once more into the unknown.
Currently shooting
2026
Z.W.
Short Film · Horror · Sci-fi · Dir: Joshua Lacle · Producer
Z.W.
Z.W., a famous visual artist with a memory illness, takes extreme measures to ensure her sovereignty when she realizes the A.I. nurses watching over her are attempting to harvest her intellectual property.
Pre-production
2026
Untitled Vampire Film
Short Film · Horror · Romance · LGBTQ+ · Dir: Jackie Kosmacki · Marketing Producer
A drifting, spiritually hollow woman deliberately seeks out a vampire and demands to be turned, finally finding in death the life she never had.
Pre-production
2026
Wrinkled and Reckless
Short Film · Romance · Spirituality · Dir: Adrian Suarez Avila · Producer
An elderly couple, tested by religious conviction, set out to rediscover sexual intimacy and desire — each in their own way.
Pre-production

03 — Director

Directing

Eggs
Drama · Magical Realism · 2024 · Writer · Director · Editor
Eggs
A forgetful man keeps buying eggs. As cartons pile up, his relationship and daily life begin to quietly collapse around him.
The Visit
Drama · Horror · 2023 · Writer · Director · Editor
The Visit
A teacher pays a home visit to a student — and discovers that the parents are hiding something deeply unsettling.
Autumn Leaves
Drama · MOS · No Dialogue · 2022 · Writer · Director · Editor
Autumn Leaves
In a world without music, a man begins to hear a presence he has never been able to understand.
The Promotion
Drama · 2022 · Writer · Director · Editor
The Promotion
When her boyfriend is offered a promotion, his girlfriend pressures him to turn it down — until a hidden secret changes everything.
Be Happy Again
Drama · 2022 · Writer · Director · Editor
Be Happy Again
A beloved dog passes away — and returns in human form for one last game of fetch with the person who loved them most.
Caviar
Drama · Magical Realism · Comedy · 2021 · Writer · Director · Editor
Caviar
A government poverty-relief official arranges for rural children to eat caviar as a showcase of progress — and watches his plan spectacularly backfire.

04 — Writer

Writing

Feature
Feature · Drama
The Child Thief
A mother steals children from the wealthy and offers them as sacrifice to God — all for the sake of her own child's future.
Thesis · In progress
Feature · Drama · Adaptation · True Story
Apple Elevator
A schizophrenic poet navigates life inside a psychiatric institution — based on a true story.
First Draft
Feature · Drama · Romance
Maya
Through three relationships marked by damage and loss, Maya searches for herself.
First Draft
Television
Pilot · Drama
On Line
A woman trafficked into a telecom scam compound begins to find her footing — as a scammer.
Pilot · Complete
Series · Sci-Fi · Dark Comedy
Be God
A terminally ill scientist and a president obsessed with immortality agree to swap heads. Neither is fully prepared for what comes next.
Bible Finished
Mini-Series · Drama
Cult Story
A man develops a rare form of prenatal depression — and the investigation into his condition unravels a cult that has been sacrificing infants.
First Draft

More scripts in progress — updated regularly.

05 — Actor

Acting

Credits
The Kill
Short Film · Horror · 2022 · A woman is stalked by a serial killer.
The Kill
Taiwanese Food Commercial
Commercial · 2026 · Upcoming
Taiwanese Food Commercial

06 — AI & 3D

AI & Virtual Production

AI Film
Remote Control
2025 – Present · AI Short Film · Writer · Director · Producer · Editor
An original kung fu action-comedy produced entirely through an AI pipeline: original screenplay first, then character and scene construction in Flora AI, then shot-by-shot direction through prompt engineering in Seedance 2.5, then final edit and assembly in Adobe Premiere Pro.
Flora AI workflow for Remote Control

Flora AI — character design, scene construction, and shot generation for Remote Control

Teaser · First episode in production

Virtual Production
Collateral Data — SCADPro
2023 · Feature Film · Writer · Producer · 3D Modeling · Unreal Engine
Industry-partnered feature film built on an Unreal Engine LED volume pipeline at SCAD. Responsible for 3D asset modeling in Maya and Blender for the virtual environment. The LED volume allowed actors to perform against fully rendered real-time 3D backgrounds.
On the LED volume stage for Collateral Data

On the LED volume stage — Unreal Engine virtual production environment, SCAD Atlanta

3D Modeling
Character Modeling — Personal Project
2025 – Present · Blender 5.2 · Self-portrait character
Self-initiated character modeling in Blender — building a stylized personal avatar with full geometry, hair system, facial rigging, and eye shader library. Applied as visual reference for AI generation pipeline and planned as an interactive element in the portfolio.
Blender character model in progress

Blender 5.2 — character model with stylized eye shader library, in progress

07 — Artwork

Artwork

Theatre
Unheard Music
原无曲 — Unheard Music
2018 · Stage Play · Writer · Director · Changsha
A 2-hour original play. After a rape occurs at a construction site, the silence of those around it allows the cycle of violence to continue.
A Woman's Decision
Play Games
一个女人决定… — A Woman's Decision
2017 · Short Stage Play · Comedy · Writer · Director · Changsha
A woman ashamed of herself decides to end her life — until she swaps identities with a femme fatale, falls for a roast goose vendor, and finds her new self challenged all over again by the gap between who she was and who she pretends to be.
★ Excellent Prize · Nanshan Theatre Festival 2017
Play Games
2018 · Stage Play · Assistant Director · Changsha
Adapted from an award-winning Taiwanese literary work. A story about a daughter who has been violated, and her mother — who remains forever frozen in the moment of her child's suffering, while her daughter ages endlessly alone.
Artwork
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2019 · Interactive Installation · Artist · Hong Kong
An interactive installation where participants become the executioner — reassembling food as a body, following steps that mirror the brutal process of female genital mutilation.
Slowness
換太子
Slowness
2021 · Installation · Artist · Hong Kong
Materials: bed, LED lights, motion sensors. Graduation exhibition at CUHK. The dangerous and dreamy temptation of escaping reality.
__換太子 — Exchange Prince Edward
2021 · Community Art · Artist · Hong Kong
In the Prince Edward district of Hong Kong, people exchanged everyday objects and stories, deepening connection within the community.
Photography
The Excavator
Going To Work
The Excavator
2018 · Digital Photography · Photographer · Guangzhou
A 7-photo series documenting workers and scenes at a Chinese construction site.
Going To Work
2018 · Digital Photography · Photographer · Yueyang
A 14-photo series about construction and workers at a Chinese chemical plant.

08 — Experience

Experience

From engineering to fine art, documentary to narrative fiction, sound design to AI filmmaking — a career built by going all-in on each new medium. Now in the middle of an MFA in Screenwriting at Feirstein while producing, directing, editing, and crewing on set. The result: a filmmaker who can write the script, produce the shoot, cut the edit, model the character, prompt the AI, and build the website. Fluent in every stage of the pipeline — and genuinely curious about where the tools are going next.

Screenwriting & Producing
M.F.A. in Screenwriting / Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema
2023 – Present · New York
Content & Production — SCAD Atlanta
M.F.A. in Film & TV / Savannah College of Art & Design
2022 – 2023 · Atlanta
Documentary & Content — China
Copywriter & Director — Shenzhen Evening News / Red-More Vision
2019 – 2022 · Shenzhen
Fine Art & Community Art
M.A. in Fine Art — The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2019 – 2021 · Hong Kong
Explored the intersection of installation art and social intervention, refining a conceptual approach to creativity that informs my current film work.
Early Life · Theatre · Animation
B.E. in Safety Engineering — Hunan Agricultural University
2015 – 2019 · Changsha / Guangzhou / Beijing