Lin Yan
Lin Yan is a Chinese television and film director from Beijing and a graduate of the Beijing Film Academy. After early work as an executive director, mainly with Teng Huatao, she made her solo directorial debut in 2014. She has since directed several successful dramas, including Where Are We Going, Dad?, Grow Up, My! PE Teacher, She and Her Perfect Husband, and The Islands. Lin Yan has received multiple industry awards, including the Golden Angel Award for Best New Director.
Early life
Lin Yan, Han Chinese, was born in Beijing. She is a female director from mainland China and graduated from the Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy.1990s and 2000s
She worked in the industry since the 90s and became more leading direction role in 2007 while working for director Teng Huatao until 2014.Directorial Debut (2014)
Her first film directed independently was 0.5 Diors and she worked on the reality series Where Are We Going, Dad?.Career
In the 1990s, Lin Yan was admitted to the Directing Department of the Beijing Film Academy, where she studied under directors Xie Fei and Xie Xiaojing. During her time at the Beijing Film Academy, She was able to work on a TV series called The Phantom Lover which was directed by Huang Lei.Graduating in 2002 from the Beijing Film Academy, She worked for director Guan Hu on the drama mystery series The Winter Solstice. Afterwards, she started working for film director Teng Hua Tao.
In 2007, she become the executive director for the family drama called under the direction of director Teng Hua Tao . 2 years later, in 2009, she was in the same role under director 滕华涛 for the urban drama 《蜗居》 and Wang Gui & Anna, a family drama adaptation from a novel written by 六六 called also《王贵与安娜》.
In 2010, she served the same role for the family drama 《瞧这一家子》. With the following year, her first movie as an executive director on Love Is Not Blind, directed by Teng Hua Tao. In 2012, she continued with a drama called《时尚女编辑》 that premiered in July 16. On the same year, Lin Yan did her last work as a executive director on drama series called《浮沉》 which features the actors and actress Zhang Jia Yi and Bai Baihe in it. In 2013 She set her last movie as an executive director for Teng Hua Tao, a Nepal-set rom-com. On the same year of 2013, Lin Yan solo directed a drama series called《屌丝日记》 that was released in 2014. She went on to direct the drama Where Are We Going, Dad? with Xie Di Kui, broadcast on Hunan TV in 2014.
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In 2015, she directed the youth drama Grow Up, which was adapted from a novel written online by a user called "zhuzhu6P". It later won the 11th Television Production Industry "Outstanding TV Drama" Award.
During the same year, she co-directed the sequel to Where Are We Going, Dad?. She followed this work up with a drama series, featuring Yin Tao, Tu Song Yan, and Tong Sheng Hang, which premiered April 2015.
In 2016, she directed a drama series called My! Physical Education Teacher,. Which tells a story of a young women falling in love with a middle age teacher that already have a teenager girl and young boy. Later on, she won the Best New Director Award at the 14th China-US Television Festival Golden Angel Awards for this drama. In July 7, she was able to premier an emotional drama called Hello, Joann,☃☃ adapted from the novel. After all that, she directed a film comedy featuring actress Huang Ting Ting and Li Yi Tong called.
Lin Yan in 2017 started the production of the drama Good Everyday, starring with Tong Li Ya and Zhang Liang. In 2018, the business style drama, broadcast. The drama was adapted from the novel of the same name by "小狐濡尾的同名". It is set in the drone industry and tells the story of Nan Qiao, a cold and homely girl from a wealthy family, and Shi Yue, a man with a mysterious background. In the same year, Lin Yan won the first "Top Ten Young TV Drama Directors in China" award.
In 2019, she directed a young romantic drama called Crocodile and the Plover Bird featuring Zhang Tian'ai, Chen Bolin, and Huang Yilin.
In 2020, Lin Yan broadcast drama series featuring Song Yi Ren and Aaron Deng on Youku video streaming site called Professional Single.
In 2021, an urban drama called Good Every Day that was adapted from a novel that 自由极光 wrote. Featuring Wang Gongliang, Xu Fangyi, Tong Liya, Zhang Liang and Chen Hao.
In 2022, Lin Yan urban emotional drama featuring Yang Mi, and Xu Kai called She and Her Perfect Husband was broadcast on Youku video streaming site.
In 2023, her Take Us Home, was broadcast on CCTV in drama with leading roles actors and actress Ma Yili, and Bai Yu.
On 2024 February 14, she directed a drama adapted from a novel called《她和她的群岛》that was broadcast on CCTV and at the same time Tecent video called The Islands'' with the lead actresses' Xu Fan, and Ma Si Chun.