Heyishi Zhang
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Filmmaker. Child of the internet.
Heyishi Zhang is a Chinese Canadian filmmaker who recently completed her last year of Film Studies at Ryerson University. During her time at Ryerson, she was the president and co-founder of the Ryerson Alliance of Women Filmmakers. Gay Mean Girls (2014) is her debut as a writer/director and received Best Screenplay, Best Art Direction and Best Film at Maximum Exposure. Her thesis project, Joy (2015) won Best Screenplay at Ryerson U. Film Festival.