Shan Jiang

Biography

Shan Jiang is a writer-director based in Los Angeles. Her debut feature EPHEMERA premiered in the U.S. Narrative Competition at the 2026 Tribeca Festival. Drawing from experiences between China and the United States, her films explore intimacy, displacement, and the instability of identity across cultures and genres. She inhabits familiar narrative tropes and bends them from within to allow new perspectives to emerge. She centers queer Asian subjectivity not as a symbol, but as lived experience.…