金燕楠 (she/her) is a Chinese-American director and screenwriter based in Berlin, Germany.

She is concerned with the architecture of dreams, memory and nostalgia as instruments of control, migration, and queer futures.

She is currently studying film in Thomas Arslan’s class at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK).



Education:

Universität der Künste Berlin
Fakultät Gestaltung
Absolventin Kunst und Medien
Fachklasse Narrativer Film
2024 - present

SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences
Berlin School of Design & Communication
M.A. Film, Television and Digital Narratives
2020 - 2022

Syracuse University
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
B.S. Advertising - Art Direction
Minor: Art Photography
2015 - 2019



Experience:


Talent Camp Odense
Odense Filmværksted
Odense, Denmark
2023

Kino Guarimba
La Guarimba Film Festival
Amantea, Italy
2023



Group Exhibitions:

WestGermany 
Working with Limitations
Berlin, Germany
2025

UdK Rundgang 2024
Katastrophe
Berlin, Germany
2024

Villa Heike
Mise-en-scène
Berlin, Germany
2019



Work:

Art Direction Intern
Jack Morton Worldwide
Chicago, Illinois
2018