Ziling 'Jolyn' Mei is a screenwriter-director from Ningbo China. She completed her BA film degree at the University of Westminster, UK in 2019 and received an MFA in Film from the Art Center College of Design, focusing on film directing. Ziling has worked on many short films and documentaries in the UK and the US as a cinematographer and 1st AD, and she was a script supervisor at 2022 IQIYI's web series "Road Back Home." Her short films "Mirroring" and "Apart" have been selected for numerous film festivals, including the Asian World Film Festival and Malibu Film Festival.