Shengze Zhu is a documentary filmmaker and producer. She co-founded Burn the Film with Zhengfan Yang, and they have been collaborating as dynamic duo since 2012. Out of Focus (2014) is Zhu’s directorial feature debut, which premiered at the Cinéma du Réel in France. Her second feature documentary Another Year (2016) premiered at the Visions du Réel in Switzerland and received the Sesterce d’or / Best Film Award; it also received the Grand Prize at the RIDM Montreal International Documentary Festival, the Critic's Award at the Olhar de Cinema (Brazil), and was honored as "Top 10 Films of the Year" in 2016 by 24 Images magazine (Canada). Present.Perfect. (2019) is her third feature, which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and received the prestigious Tiger Award. Zhu has also served as producer for Yang's films, including Distant (2013, fiction, Locarno), Where are you going (2016, documentary, IFFR) and Down There (2018, short fiction, Venice).