Ephemera

JIANG Shan is a writer-director based in Los Angeles. Her debut feature Ephemera had its world premiere in the U.S. Narrative Competition at the 2026 Tribeca Festival. Her previous feature screenplay Love, Elephant & Tourbillon won the Grand Prize at the 2024 BlueCat Screenplay Competition. Drawing from experiences between China and the United States, her films explore intimacy, displacement, and the instability of identity across cultures and genres. She inhabits familiar narrative tropes and bends them from within to allow new perspectives to emerge. She centers queer Asian subjectivity not as a symbol, but as lived experience. Shan’s upcoming projects expand her exploration of human intimacy in increasingly complex terrain, working toward a kind of cinema that remains urgent and alive in a rapidly shifting media landscape.