01 / About
Cynthia / Yiran Wang
Creative Director
On set
Los Angeles–based filmmaker, multidisciplinary visual artist, and director working between cultures and across forms.
Los Angeles
Short Film Don't Peek / Production DesignerBuilding the world
Artistic Statement
I create films centered on women and people whose lives are often present but rarely seen—particularly East Asian women and individuals shaped by migration, labor, and cultural displacement. My work explores how identity is formed, perceived, and misread, and how people who have long remained unheard can reclaim visibility and agency.
As both a director and production designer, I treat visual language as an essential part of storytelling. Space, color, texture, and composition are not simply backgrounds, but ways of expressing emotion, power, memory, and cultural identity. Moving between realism and abstraction, I build visually driven worlds that challenge narratives in which women are reduced to passive or ornamental roles.
I also experiment with emerging forms of image-making, including AI, not only as a production tool but as an evolving artistic medium. By working across live-action filmmaking, production design, and AI-generated imagery, I explore new ways of representing experiences that are difficult to visualize through conventional forms.
Festival / New YorkBig Apple Film Festival
Biography
Yiran “Cynthia” Wang is a Los Angeles–based filmmaker, director, and production designer originally from China. She studied filmmaking at Emerson College and Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film and Television, developing a cross-cultural practice that combines narrative filmmaking with visual world-building.
Her work centers on women and individuals shaped by migration, labor, and cultural displacement, with a particular focus on experiences that are often overlooked or misrepresented. Working across directing, production design, model making, and AI-generated imagery, she uses space, color, texture, and composition to translate emotion and cultural identity into visual form. Her practice moves between realism and abstraction while exploring emerging technologies, including AI, as evolving artistic media.