Rina Yang

History

Rina is a director of photography based in London. She grew up in a small city in Japan, where she studied still life and portrait painting. She has been selected for the BAFTA Breakthrough 2020, and she is also the first female DOP ever to win a cinematography award at the British Arrows, as well as being nominated for a best cinematographer in fiction at the BAFTA Cymru Awards 19', making history in both commercials and narrative categories.

Movies

Nanny

Director of Photography

Senegalese immigrant Aisha lands a job as a nanny for a wealthy Manhattan couple. As she prepares for the arrival of the son she left behind in Senegal, a violent presence begins to invade both her dreams and her reality, threatening to destroy the American Dream she is painstakingly piecing together.

All Too Well: The Short Film

Director of Photography

Short film featuring the extended version of the song “All Too Well” by Taylor Swift. A troubled couple's romance blossoms before it eventually falls apart.

Sitting in Limbo

Director of Photography

Anthony Bryan and his personal struggle to be accepted as a British Citizen during the Windrush immigration scandal.

Kiss of the Rabbit God

Director of Photography

A Chinese restaurant worker falls in love with an 18th century Qing dynasty god.

Bohemian Rhapsody

Second Unit Director of Photography

Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.

Noro

Director of Photography

Caitlin is having therapy to cope with the loss of her son but is becoming increasingly more paranoid about those around her. A simple accident leads her to a truth that nothing can prepare her for.

Telephone Me

Director of Photography

The story of an unfaithful girlfriend, told from multiple view points through to its gruesome conclusion. It is a dark, atmospheric and honest look at the consequences of infidelity, and the intense emotions that come with it.

Roxanne

Director of Photography

A cold and isolated transgender sex worker takes in a young girl who has been abandoned by her mother, and her life is thrown into question.

Flint Strong

Director of Photography

Flint Strong tells the true story of 17-year-old Claressa “T-Rex” Shields, a Flint, Michigan native whose dreams of becoming the first woman in history to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing were realized at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, Shields won a second gold medal in women’s middleweight boxing.