Zhengfan Yang is a writer, director, producer, and visual artist. After graduating from law school, he started making films with Shengze Zhu, and together they established BURN THE FILM. Zhengfan has made four feature-length films and several shorts, encompassing fiction, documentary, and experimental films. His work includes DISTANT (2013, fiction, Festival del Film Locarno), WHERE ARE YOU GOING (2016, documentary, International Film Festival Rotterdam), DOWN THERE (2018, fiction short, Venice International Film Festival), and FOOTNOTE (2022, documentary, International Film Festival Rotterdam). His films have been screened at prominent film festivals and venues across the world, including New York Film Festival, AFI Fest, Busan International Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Warsaw Film Festival, Viennale, Festival des 3 Continents in France, the Centers for Contemporary Art and Photography in Brazil, and the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, among many others. His documentary WHERE ARE YOU GOING received the Jury Award at China Independent Film Festival and the Best Experimental Film Award at South Taiwan Film Festival. His fiction short DOWN THERE received the Grand Prix George Lucas Award and the Best Asian Short Film Award at Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia in Japan. Zhengfan has also worked as a producer for all of Shengze’s films.

Shengze Zhu is an independent filmmaker and producer. She has made four feature-length documentaries, including OUT OF FOCUS (2014, Cinéma du Réel), ANOTHER YEAR (2016, Visions du Réel, Sesterce d'Or Best Film Award), PRESENT.PERFECT. (2019, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Tiger Award), and A RIVER RUNS, TURNS, ERASES, REPLACES (2021, Berlinale Forum, Caligari Film Prize). Her films have been screened at more than 100 film festivals, museums, and venues around the world, including New Directors/New Films at MoMA and Lincoln Center, New York Film Festival, AFI Fest, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, Viennale, Jeonju International Film Festival, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the Institute of Contemporary Art London, and the Gropius Bau Museum, among many others. Her work has garnered widespread acclaim: ANOTHER YEAR was selected by 24 Images magazine (Canada) as one of the "Top 10 Films of 2016"; PRESENT.PERFECT. received a Special Mention in Cinema Scope’s "Top 10 Films of 2019" and was named one of the Best Movies of 2019 by Chicago Tribune. The film was also ranked No. 5 on Film Comment’s list of the Best Undistributed Films of 2019, while A RIVER RUNS, TURNS, ERASES, REPLACES was ranked No. 6 in 2021. Shengze has also worked as a producer for all of Zhengfan’s films.