Lyncis Xueyang Niu is a producer, director, and screenwriter pursuing an MFA in UCLA’s Producers Program and the founder of KNOT Films, an independent Asian film screening organization. Lyncis’s short films include ‘Scrambled Eggs’, ‘Before Fireworks’, and ‘Three Thumbs to Shanghai’, which received support from the UCLA TFT Production Fund. ‘AI Means Love’, Lyncis’s first feature documentary as executive producer, is a China–Japan co-production exploring artificial intelligence. Selected for the FIRST International Film Festival, the documentary is continuing its festival run.
An NYU Tisch graduate, Lyncis earned Dean’s List recognition and the NYU Founders Day Award and served as Diversity Officer on the Tisch Undergraduate Student Council. At UCLA, Lyncis also served as a TFT Wellness Center Ambassador.
Lyncis was the first-ever intern in CAA China’s Motion Picture department and served as a short film screener for AFI FEST 2026’s fiction and nonfiction categories.
Education
BFA, Tisch, NYU