Xiaoxuan Jiang is a writer-director born in Inner Mongolia, China. She received her BFA in Film & TV from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Her narrative short Graveyard of Horses (2022) was selected for PÖFF Shorts, SXSW ’23, and BFI ’23. It won the NETPAC Award at the Busan International Short Film Festival, the Grand Prix Award at the Hiroshima International Film Festival, and Best Student International Short at the 46th Denver Film Festival.
Her first feature, To Kill A Mongolian Horse (2024), was supported by Sundance Ignite and was a recipient of the script development fund from the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Cinema Fund, the VIPO award, the Sørfond award at the Asian Project Market, and the Whitelight Post-production Award at the Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum.
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