Xiao Bai Tarr
- Writer
- Producer
Xiao Bai, also known as Dawn, is a Chinese-American media columnist, screenplay writer and independent film producer who emigrated from China to the United States in 2007 and resides in Austin, U.S.A.
She graduated from the Art and Design School of the Shanghai Institute of Technology and she has professional experience in the fields of advertising design, restaurant management, floral design, and writing articles in Chinese for online blogs and for a U.S. based Chinese newspaper.
In 2015 she submitted a short story to the "Think beauty, Write Beauty" national Chinese women's Grand Prix network and it placed tenth out of more than 15,000 submissions. In the same year, she began studying the art of screenplay writing and produced her first 68-minute Chinese-English movie Hidden Summer (2018) in 2017.
Since 2018 Xiao Bai has focused on writing scripts in English that have strong female themes, with an aesthetic perspective that brings out the underlying human feelings and emotions that audiences can identify with. Screenplay drama scripts completed to date include "Chinatown Puzzle", "Hello Love" and "Escape from Land of Tears".
In 2019, to further broaden her skill set, she took a Film Making class at Austin Film School and, as Writer, Producer and Director, completed a 5 min short "Way Out of the Blue". She also wrote her first award winning comedy short "Lonely Meets Lover".
She graduated from the Art and Design School of the Shanghai Institute of Technology and she has professional experience in the fields of advertising design, restaurant management, floral design, and writing articles in Chinese for online blogs and for a U.S. based Chinese newspaper.
In 2015 she submitted a short story to the "Think beauty, Write Beauty" national Chinese women's Grand Prix network and it placed tenth out of more than 15,000 submissions. In the same year, she began studying the art of screenplay writing and produced her first 68-minute Chinese-English movie Hidden Summer (2018) in 2017.
Since 2018 Xiao Bai has focused on writing scripts in English that have strong female themes, with an aesthetic perspective that brings out the underlying human feelings and emotions that audiences can identify with. Screenplay drama scripts completed to date include "Chinatown Puzzle", "Hello Love" and "Escape from Land of Tears".
In 2019, to further broaden her skill set, she took a Film Making class at Austin Film School and, as Writer, Producer and Director, completed a 5 min short "Way Out of the Blue". She also wrote her first award winning comedy short "Lonely Meets Lover".