Yang Zimik is a Directing Fellow at the American Film Institute Conservatory, LA.
Yang worked in Bollywood for five years before taking on the role of Head Writer & Director at the WWI Jio VR Lab in 2018, where he experimented with the latest in Virtual Reality technology. He designed the curriculum for ‘Writing & Directing for Virtual Reality’, the first of its kind in India. In 2021, Yang diversified his skills as Lead Narrative Designer at Studio Sirah, writing and designing the story for a collectible card game based on Indian Mythology.
Yang is interested in telling stories of disenfranchisement and isolation. Yang’s life-long struggle with identity has gravitated him towards making films about people who lie on or beyond the periphery of society’s consciousness.