Sirena Liu

Sirena Liu aka Yan Liu or Liu Yan is an established personality in the film industry and is also a part of the television industry. She is a well-known producer in China. She founded the “FilmWorks Company”, China, in 2010, and worked as its president.

Sirena completed her Bachelor of Arts (B.A) in history from the Anhui University of Education, China. She did B.A in Journalism from Renmin University, Beijing and later her Masters in Business Administration from Claremont Graduate University, California. She initially worked as the director of business development for SEEC media group- an international magazine publishing house. Then she worked for Columbia pictures in Shanghai, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong. It was here that she contributed for films such as “ Kung Fu Panda Kung Fu Panda Legend of awesomeness is a Popular T >> Read More... ” and “Ultraviolet”.

Liu began her career in the entertainment industry in 2005. She was the Director of Strategic Development for Orange Sky Golden Harvest Entertainment. The enterprise was a Public Invested Entertainment Company in China. It had a number of theatre chains operating under it. The unit was engaged in Financing, Production, Distribution, and Exhibition. Liu was constantly working on its Corporate Strategy, Co-Productions and Investments. She created and implemented many project financing opportunities for the company. She devoted 3 years to the unit. The period from 2006-2009 was flourishing for the company. Thus, the success of Orange sky film division can be very much attributed to Sirena’s effort.

After that, she headed Filmworks Company. Here she worked in partnership with major Hollywood Studios, Production Companies, and Advertisement Brands. During her directorial work period, Liu was also engaged in the production of the movie Red Cliff. It was an adventure and action packed movie by ‘ John Woo John Woo is a film director, producer, and writer. >> Read More... ’. It released in 2008. It was centered on a battle fought in China during the period between 220-280A.D. The movie had a sequel in the following year which was Red cliff II. Sirena again was the co-producer for this epic film. In 2011, Yan worked as the producer for the Television series “Tian Xing Jian”. It was based on the Chinese Tsinghua’s University.

Her contribution is not limited to few but rather numerous movies. Other such movies are “Transformers 2”, Transformers  3, Transformers  4, “Ice Age 4”, “Fast & Furious 6”, “ Minions Click to look into! >> Read More... ”, and “Superman: Man of Steel”. In 2012, Sirena became the manager for JWT entertainment and marketing unit at Shanghai. This unit worked as brand content creation and advertising. Due to her vast experience in international and domestic film and television entertainment, she was appointed as Managing Director for 20th Century Fox Entertainment, China in 2015. She is responsible for all studio activities in media. She also supervises the Beijing’s office.