Yang Chieh is a Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer, and actress born in Taoyuan County, Taiwan. She studied Radio & Television Department at National Chengchi University in Taipei from 2008 to 2013 and was in the MFA-Film program at Columbia University in New York after 2014.

Yang Chieh joined the school drama club in her high school and college life to accumulate experience in stage performance. From 2010 to 2011, she produced documentary films to dig into Taiwan's social issues, such as rural education, the plastic cosmetic industry, and so on, to enrich her experiences in film production. Her first narrative short film "Her Dream Lovers" produced in this period attracted wide attentions and reporting from Taiwan media after Yang Chieh applied it for Short Film Corner of Cannes Film Festival at 2012 during her student exchange period to France at her third year of college.

After graduating from university, she founded Whoa Studio with some friends and took classes such as the production of commercial ads, music videos and short film competitions and applied for the MFA-Film program at the same time.

In 2016, the short film "Ping Pong Coach", which was written and produced by Yang won the Student Visionary Award at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. She also won the Best Editing Award by "Cronos" directed by her in the Golden Harvest Award in Taipei.

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