Yankee Zhou Yanz, also known as Yankee Zhou, or Zhou Yanz, is a veteran in film/video production, criticism, and education. He has a Master’s degree in Cinema Studies from New York University, and wrote, directed many award-winning works before moving from Taiwan to the USA in 2010. His subject matter, fiction or nonfiction always revolves around his characters’ emotional state-of-being or warm mortality. He is now running a nonprofit organization, Memory Community, also working on seeking funds to shoot the narrative feature "Signed, Baba". The newest project is "Garden Court Guardians", a feature of which the script is complete in 2025.