Yulin Kuang

Director and writer · Born April 5, 1990 (36)

Writers Guild Award nominee

Yulin Kuang is an LA-based award-winning screenwriter and director, whose work includes Dollface, The Healing Powers of Dude, and People we Meet on Vacation. Born in Guangzhou, China and quickly uprooted first to the flat plains of Wichita, Kansas and then to various suburbs of New Jersey, she wrote a lot of Harry Potter fanfiction and became obsessed with telling kissing stories.

What are Yulin Kuang's films like?

Across a limited sample of 4 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.

Themes

share of theme weight

Bonds

56%

Self

36%

Survival

8%

Romantic love3 Friendship2 Coming of age2

Moods and endings

endings shown from 5 titles

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Joyful

3

Romantic

3

Warm

3

Hopeful

2

Bittersweet

1

How their films linger

Feel-good4 Hopeful4

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Yulin Kuang's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 3 of their 5 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Netflix (2).

Subscription and free streaming for Yulin Kuang's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

12 credits, 5 with a MovieCove page.

Beach Read (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2027)
Director · Screenplay
People We Meet on Vacation(2026)
Screenplay
Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
Love on Iceland(2020)
Story · Teleplay
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films
The Healing Powers of Dude(2020)
Show 2 episodes · Director
Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all shows
Dollface(2019)
Show 1 episode · Director
Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all shows
Love Daily(2018)
Show 1 episode · Director · Writer
Midcredits score: 17th percentile of all shows
I Ship It (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Show 3 episodes · Director · Creator · Writer
Angie + Zahra (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Director · Writer
Twilight Storytellers: We've Met Before (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Director
I Ship It (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Director · Writer
The Perils of Growing Up Flat-Chested (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Director · Producer · Writer
I Believe in a Thing Called Love (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Writer

Career shape

A full career of 12 titles, 10 of them dated from 2013 to 2026.

Highest rated

People We Meet on Vacation (2026)

Midcredits 68^th

By role

only this rolewith another role

Directing9 of 12Writing9 of 12Producing1 of 12Other crew1 of 12

12 titles, 6 with more than one role — directing and writing overlap on 6 of them.

By decade

2010s7 · crew2020s3 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it.

Awards

Nominated for a Writers Guild Award in 2019, Short Form New Media Original.

Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.