Yan is an up - and - coming filmmaker
whose feature directorial debut «Dead
Pigs» — about «A bumbling
pig farmer, a feisty salon owner, a sensitive busboy, an expat architect and a disenchanted rich girl converge and collide as thousands of dead
pigs float down the river towards a rapidly - modernizing Shanghai» — earned strong reviews and won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting at Sundance.