Yuky Shen is a Shanghai-born, LA-based producer. She graduated from American Film Institute and produced 6 narrative shorts ranging from WWII drama to Kimchi western. Her thesis film, Magdalena, has won Golden Tadpole at Cameraimage, Best Student Film at Beverly Hills Film Festival and was officially selected in HollyShorts, RIFF and CAA Moebius showcase. For Shen, filmmaking is a way of fighting. She is committed to tell diverse stories about people whose voices are silenced, ignored or distorted. She believes that movies have the power to touch people, make them ruminate and thus make a change in real life.