Yuanfeng (Watermelon) Song

Watermelon Song Yuanfeng is a native of Beijing, China who also spent time growing up in Syracuse, NY and Wales, UK. An independent filmmaker since the age of eight, he has entered international film festivals. Watermelon majored in Asian Studies (Chinese track) and minored in Cinema & Media Arts at Vanderbilt University. At Stanford, he hopes to explore the purely aesthetic value of post-Sixth Generation Chinese films like Better Days (2019), Her Story (2024) and Ne Zha (2025) in conjunction with their political significance. Watermelon is also interested in recent Asian representations and Black-Asian solidarity portrayed in Hollywood genre films and mini-series such as Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), Beef (2023), Mickey 17, and Sinners (2025). In his free time, he enjoys playing squash, tennis, badminton, basketball, gourd flute, guitar, singing, and hiking.