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Xinyan Y.

Washington, DC, USA

3 reviews

$1000 - $2000 / Day

About

Xinyan is an award-winning video journalist and filmmaker based in Washington DC. Born and raised in Wuhan, China, Xinyan started her journalism career in 2012 working as a producer for BBC News in Beijing covering the Asia Pacific region. In 2018, she launched the North America video team for Hong Kong’s flagship newspaper South China Morning Post in New York, and later joined the BBC's Washington DC bureau in 2020 as a senior video journalist. Xinyan's 23-min BBC documentary China’s Science Revolution won the 2015 BBC Storytelling Fund and was Highly Commended for Excellent Online Production at the 2016 AIB Awards. Her 15-min short film for South China Morning Post, Fighting Fentanyl: the Drug from China Destroying American Lives, won the Gold Prize for Best Use of Online Video at the 2019 WAN-IFRA Asian Digital Media Awards. A BBC News video feature she shot, Are America's unvaccinated changing their minds?, won a White House News Photographers Association's Eyes of History Digital Storytelling award in 2022. Now working as an independent filmmaker, she has directed and produced for the BBC, CNBC, PBS NOVA, Newsy and Channel New Asia. Xinyan is a Firelight Media Documentary Lab fellow, a Brown Girls Doc Mafia Sustainable Artist fellow and an alumnus of the Yaddo Residency.

Top Services

News Shooter / Video Journalist
3 reviews
Documentary DP
1 review
Corporate Videographer
1 review

Clients

Top Reviews

  • January • 2022

    Really positive experience working with Xinyan. She was responsive, the video was well composed and delivered back quickly and she was able to learn and transmit live signals over our Network owned TVU. If you need a news shooter in DC I would definitely recommend her

    Chad at Scripps News

Top Projects

Equipment

Video

  • 4K video camera
  • DSLR or equivalent
  • GoPro or equivalent
  • Multiple cameras

Audio

  • External recorder
  • Wireless lavalier mic
  • Shotgun mic

Miscellaneous

  • Lighting kit
  • Shoulder rig

All Services

Production Support

  • News Shooter / Video Journalist
  • Documentary DP
  • Non-Fiction Film Director
  • Field Producer
  • TV News Producer
  • HD Live Operator
  • Reporter / Journalist
  • Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
  • Drone Operator
  • Production Assistant
  • Audio Storyteller
  • Commercial DP
  • Corporate Videographer

Post Production

  • Video Editor - News
  • Video Editor - Documentary
  • Video Editor - Commercial

Miscellaneous

  • Senior Producer / Project Manager
  • Fixer
  • Creative Director