Dead Pigs

The fates of an unlucky pig farmer, a feisty homeowner defending her property, a love-struck busboy, a disenchanted rich girl, and an American expat pursuing the Chinese Dream converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs are found floating down the Huangpu River, towards a modernizing Shanghai in Cathy Yan's (BIRDS OF PREY) debut feature. Executive produced by Jia Zhangke (STILL LIFE, ASH IS PUREST WHITE).

"Thoroughly enjoyable, DEAD PIGS arises as the origin chapter of a great storyteller and an opportune mosaic of people in a rapidly transforming superpower." - The Los Angeles Times

"A work of ebullient satire and quietly stirring humanism." - The Playlist

"Cathy Yan's delightful, spiky, comic debut...an antidote to China’s weightier arthouse output, settling the stomach after too much stolid social realism, effervescent as an alka-seltzer." - Variety

Winner - Special Jury Prize - Ensemble Acting - Sundance Film Festival
Winner - New Directors Competition - Seattle Int'l. Film Festival
Winner - Archie Award - Philadelphia Film Festival
Winner - Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Award - Palm Springs Int'l. Film Festival
Winner- Grand Jury Prize-Dallas Int'l. Film Festival