Yuqi Kang is a Mongol Chinese Canadian filmmaker whose work moves fluidly between the intimate and the epic. She is the founder of Blue Goat Films.

 

Her debut feature documentary, A Little Wisdom (2017), which she also produced, premiered at Busan, SXSW, Karlovy Vary, and Shanghai, earning numerous international awards, including Best Canadian Feature at Hot Docs and the Grand Jury Prize at DOC NYC. The film was subsequently acquired by Amazon Prime.

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Her second feature, 7 Beats Per Minute (2024), co-produced with the National Film Board of Canada and Intuitive Pictures, premiered at SXSW, Hot Docs, Warsaw, and Hainan, garnering multiple festival awards. The film was theatrically released in Canada in 2025, screened at 188 stops across 16 countries on the Ocean Film Tour, where it won the Audience Award as voted by tour audiences, and is now available internationally on major airline platforms and on VOD via the National Film Board of Canada. Both films were nominated for the Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award.

 

Kang also produced her third feature, Fruit Is Ripe (2026), commissioned by TELUS Originals. The film premiered at the Calgary International Film Festival and is available on TELUS Optik TV Video On Demand, Channel 8, and Stream+.

 

She is a DOC NYC 40 Under 40 honouree and an alumna of Berlinale Talents, TIFF Directors' Lab, the Canadian Film Centre Directors' Lab, the Eggcelerator Lab at Chicken & Egg Pictures, Tribeca Film Institute, Hot Docs Accelerator Lab, the Canadian Academy for Women Directors, and FIRST Lab in China.

 

She is currently developing her narrative directorial debut, Caecilians, a feminist psychological horror co-produced with Conquering Lion Pictures.