China Moo-Young first trained at The National Youth Theatre, before going on to study Drama at Bristol University, graduating with a First Class Honours BA in Film, Theatre and TV. She then worked as a Director's Assistant and Creative Researcher - sourcing photography, films, art, and music - for top production companies and advertising agencies on many award-winning campaigns. In 2005, China wrote and directed her first short film Liar. Her second short, Juvenile was made with the support of the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund - she then went on to direct Emo for Channel 4's Coming Up season. China was named 'Star of Tomorrow' in Screen International's annual review of British film-making talent and was also recently selected as a 'Breakthrough Brit' on the prestigious UKFC programme which recognises the brightest of Britain's young film-making talent. China is currently working on several film and television projects, including her first feature script in partnership with B3 Media FeatureLab and Film4.

TELEVISION

SECRET DIARY OF A CALL GIRL - SERIES 3: Block Director. Tiger Aspect/Showtime for ITV. Starring Billie Piper. Series Producer: Rebecca De Souza (2009)

FILM

BAIT: Director of original feature written by Lucy Moore, in development (2010).

EMO: Channel 4, Coming Up (2008).                        

JUVENILE: Wanted Films/UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund. 35mm. 11 minute short distributed by Future Shorts (2007). Premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival (2007). Sundance Film Festival (January 2008). London Short Film Festival, nominated for The Teenage Britain Jury Award, (January 2008). Berlin International Film Festival (February 2008).

LIAR: 16mm, 10 minute short (2005). New Producers Alliance Best Shorts Finalist and Runner Up Winner (2006). Screened international film festivals including Cannes, Hamburg, San Francisco and Raindance (2006). Broadcast on European Television including Poland, Russia and France (2007). Distributed by Future Shorts, now available on LoveFilm and BBC Film Network (2007).

MUSIC VIDEO

THE DOVES 'Kingdom of Rust': Director. Produced by Warp Films. EMI (2009)

Nominated 2009 UK Music Video Awards - Best Cinematography

KEITH 'Lullaby': Director. Produced by Warp Films. Lucky Number Records (2008)

NEW MEDIA

MISFITS: 10 x Online interactive films for E4/Clerkenwell (2009) 

THE GETAWAY BLACK MONDAY: Sony Playstation Game. Digital Motion Capture Cut Scenes. 75 minutes (2004).

'Wonderfully acted, written, and directed motion-capture. Cut Scenes play like the Snatch follow-up Guy Ritchie should have made, further evidence of the narrowing gap between video game and movie production values.' Maxim