Juefang Zhang
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Juefang is an NYU-Tisch graduate with great passion in directing, writing and producing. She specializes in Asian-US co-productions and international productions. She started her career worked as Assistant Director on THE DIARY directed by Jackie Chan. In 2019, her directing work DETOUR was selected for the top 12 for the HFPA Snow Leopard Scholarship and her feature film, MOLLY BLING BLING, has been selected as an SFFILM Westridge finalist.
In 2021, she co-produced the Emmy-nominated WUHAN WUHAN with Academy Award-winner Donna Gigliotti and KungFu star Donnie Yen. It has also received IDA Best Feature Awards nomination and won the Best International Feature Award of Doc Edge Film Festival. In 2022, she has co-produced the dramatic comedy film K-POPS! with the 8-time Grammy winner, Anderson .Paak, who is set to direct, and star. She has also executive produced the Sundance sci-fi title MAIKA and LA Asian Film Festival title DAWNING. The same year, she was invited as the panel speaker at the American Pavilion panel during Cannes Film Festival and as a judge at Chicago International Film Festival. In 2023, she worked as the associate producer on the documentary HIDDEN LETTERS which premiered at Tribeca and shortlisted for the Academy Awards.
She has worked as the head of Film&TV at EST Studios and the creative executive at Starlight's where she has overseen the development deals with A-list directors including Sam Raimi, Jon Chu, James Wan and Roland Emmerich and worked on MALIGNANT by James Wan, MIDWAY by Roland Emmerich and UMMA by Sam Raimi. To promote BIPOC filmmakers, she spearheaded the Sundance Institute x Stars Collective Granting Fund, a diversity fund with Sundance. She also negotiated separate co-production partnership with Malaysia-based ACE Pictures Entertainment and Taiwan-based Studio76.
In 2021, she co-produced the Emmy-nominated WUHAN WUHAN with Academy Award-winner Donna Gigliotti and KungFu star Donnie Yen. It has also received IDA Best Feature Awards nomination and won the Best International Feature Award of Doc Edge Film Festival. In 2022, she has co-produced the dramatic comedy film K-POPS! with the 8-time Grammy winner, Anderson .Paak, who is set to direct, and star. She has also executive produced the Sundance sci-fi title MAIKA and LA Asian Film Festival title DAWNING. The same year, she was invited as the panel speaker at the American Pavilion panel during Cannes Film Festival and as a judge at Chicago International Film Festival. In 2023, she worked as the associate producer on the documentary HIDDEN LETTERS which premiered at Tribeca and shortlisted for the Academy Awards.
She has worked as the head of Film&TV at EST Studios and the creative executive at Starlight's where she has overseen the development deals with A-list directors including Sam Raimi, Jon Chu, James Wan and Roland Emmerich and worked on MALIGNANT by James Wan, MIDWAY by Roland Emmerich and UMMA by Sam Raimi. To promote BIPOC filmmakers, she spearheaded the Sundance Institute x Stars Collective Granting Fund, a diversity fund with Sundance. She also negotiated separate co-production partnership with Malaysia-based ACE Pictures Entertainment and Taiwan-based Studio76.