Jiang Xiaoxuan
Chinese director
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Jiang Xiaoxuan (Chinese: 姜晓萱[1]) is a Chinese filmmaker.[2] Her debut film, To Kill a Mongolian Horse, premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2024, where Jiang won the Authors Under 40 Award—Special Mention for Best Directing.[3][4]
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IMA Low Residency Program
Jiang Xiaoxuan | |||||||
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Jiang in April 2025 | |||||||
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| Education | NYU Tisch IMA Low Residency Program | ||||||
| Occupation | Filmmaker | ||||||
| Known for | To Kill a Mongolian Horse | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 姜曉萱 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 姜晓萱 | ||||||
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Early life and education
Jiang was born in Inner Mongolia and grew up in the northern mining centre of Baotou.[5][6] Her father was a horse breeder and her mother came from a long line of singers.[6] She graduated from NYU Tisch in 2020 and then from the Interactive Media Arts Low Residency Master's Program, a joint offering of NYU Shanghai and NYU Tisch, in 2022.[5]
Career
During the COVID-19 pandemic, in between her education at NYU Tisch and IMA, she returned to Inner Mongolia "to seek inspiration for my thesis and rediscover something new." There, she filmed a short documentary and stumbled upon "a female horse that had died of a miscarriage, beside her a lifeless fetus frozen stiff on the ground," an image that would later inspire To Kill a Mongolian Horse.[5]
To Kill a Mongolian Horse premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2024. It earned two nominations for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, specifically best film and best director.[7]