Zi Xiang is a Chinese film director and a screenwriter. She began her career in filmmaking in her senior year when studying Economics at Beijing Forestry University. Before shooting her first feature A Dog Barking At The Moon, she studied filmmaking in New York and worked as camera assistant, DIT and teaching assistant in Los Angeles. After marrying Jose Valero, her schoolmate and fellow filmmaker, she moved to Spain where they worked together on documentaries and webseries. She finished writing her first feature script in August 2017, and shot her film in June 2018 when she was 4 months pregnant with her second daughter. She has also written short stories and poems on the side, publishing an independent poem collection, The Dogteeth of Postmodernism, in Spain (2013).