Youwen Ma

Youwen Ma recently earned her MFA in directing from the American Film Institute Conservatory. She received her BA in Film and TV Production from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China and studied at Hong Kong Baptist University, National Chengchi University in Taiwan and UCLA, where she concentrated on cinema studies and screenwriting. Before coming to AFI, she had served as assistant director on television shows at Shanghai Media Group and worked in investigative television journalism at Shanghai Television Station. She is a development intern at Captivate Entertainment at NBCUniversal, and a script reader for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab.