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Cathy Yan tells us how an unsellable Chinese satire, 'Dead Pigs', kickstarted the 'Birds Of Prey' filmmaker's industry-disrupting career

Dead Pigs, 2018(Film still) As Cathy Yan’s first feature film is released on MUBI, the director speaks to Kat Haylett about making and meaning of the movie February 10, 2021 In the spring of 2013, over 16,000 dead pigs were found floating in the Huangpu River in Shanghai. Quickly, this became a national – and then global – news story due to the bizarre nature of the incident – which was attributed to the growing reluctance of farmers to cover the rising cost of burying livestock. A few years later, this strange event served as the basis for director Cathy Yan’s first feature film, ...

Dead Pigs review – winding tale of life in cash-crazed Shanghai Peter Bradshaw A breezily westernised style of Chinese movie is on offer in this 2018 debut feature from Chinese-American film-maker Cathy Yan, who two years later went to Hollywood to direct Birds of Prey, starring Margot Robbie. Dead Pigs is an ensemble dramedy set in Shanghai that satirises – in a distinctly lenient way – the commercialism eating away at China’s heart. It is inspired by a real-life incident in which thousands of dead pigs were found in the city’s Huangpu river, dumped by poverty-stric...

Yan's first film was made made before her DC movie and finally arrives this week.

Most American audiences know Cathy Yan for having directed last year's anarchic supervillain(ess) caper Birds of Prey, but now they'll finally have a chance to catch up on her work leading up to Harley Quinn's fantabulous emancipation. The filmmaker's debut feature Dead Pigs, which premiered at Sundance in 2018 (where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting), gets its global release on Friday, and EW can exclusively reveal the darkly funny indie's trailer, above. "It feels a little bit like going back to my roots and going home," to be talking about Dead Pigs...