Angi Tianzhu is a multidisciplinary writer, director, and creative director whose brand work includes Google, Meta, Disney, Netflix, Gatorade, Old Spice, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Twitter, and The Grammys — leading voice and vision, agency- and client-side, across campaigns, product launches, and 360 storytelling. She comes from a journalism and film background and was raised by fine artist/educator parents.
Her work spans commercials, branded content, episodic series, and independent film. She's tapped into cultural moments like Art Basel, where she worked alongside artists, collaborated with icons, and created an original game that later got turned into a full-scale, real-life version at Comic Con — and yes, she's directed TV spots nine and a half months pregnant and coached Michael Phelps to dance. She's also a writer/performer for sketch comedy and improv via The Second City, Groundlings, and UCB.
Repeated themes in her work include: struts, casual celebrities, tough guys doing one last job, assassins, animated monsters and mayhem, transformations, femme fatales and bad boys, swimming pools, weird animations (men riding eagles, MLB, missiles, spiders, etc.), dancing, singing, and more dancing — plus sexy brand books, localized shoppable lookbooks, and interactive celebrity cooking shows. She also fancies smelling Blake Shelton's hair, handing a 12-year-old lines to tease Kal Penn about his Rotten Tomatoes score (sorry, Kal!), painting herself as the Asian Venus (sorry, mom!), working with Lady Gaga's fashion Haus, finding doppelgängers for celebs, and getting The Hoff to once again run in slow-motion.
Currently freelance and taking on new projects — get in touch if you want to work together.
Reel
DIRECTING
Nebbula
Experimental Short
A near-future meditation program sends a woman through surreal inner worlds she was never meant to access.
THE INTERVIEW
Neo-Noir Short
A detective investigating a missing person begins to unravel his own past.