About Us
Sine Screen is a London-based emerging screening collective dedicated to showcasing independent cinema and moving image works from across East and Southeast Asia. We hope to contribute to more nuanced discussions around East and Southeast Asian cultures and histories through diverse curated programmes.
The Team
Yiru Liu
Co-founder
Yiru is a brand marketer, event organiser and film lover. She got her Bachelor degree at University of Sussex in Marketing Management and MA degree in Film Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.
She has worked with multiple everyday consumer goods brands as a Brand and Product Manager for 5 years. With a dream of working on something related to film, she moved back to the UK to pursue her passion. Now with Sine Screen and over 30 events around England, the reality is already beyond what she dare to imagine.
Hester Yang
Co-founder
Hester is an artist-researcher and curator based in London and Beijing. Her hybrid practice explores histories at the margins of visibility, working across sound, moving image, and archival interventions.
She draws on speculative and collaborative methods to make visible hidden narratives shaped by displacement, racialised labour, and migration. Her work has been selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2023) and shown in Open Eye Gallery, Grundy Art Gallery and Camden Arts Centre, esea contemporary, Migration Museum, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre.
Cici Peng
Film programmer
Cici Peng is a film journalist, film programmer, film producer based in London. She has written for the FT, TANK, LWLies, Dazed & Confused, i-D, Variety and led and edited an editorial project for gal-dem. She is the lead mentor of the Queer East Critics Project. She has programmed screenings and events at the BFI, ICA, the Barbican among others. She is part of the preselection committee for New York Film Festival’s Currents shorts.
Yijiao Dong
Whose Homeland 2023
Yijiao (Heather) is an independent film curator and film student. She’s been making several short films and working for various film festivals in China and Europe.
