URBANA â Much of the coverage of the disappearance of University of Illinois visiting scholar Yingying Zhang focused on the investigation, her killer and the trial.
In the documentary âFinding Yingying,â which is now playing in virtual theaters, director Jiayan âJennyâ Shi turns the attention to Ms. Zhang and her family.
âA lot of news coverage of the story can only cover the facts, the investigation, the breakthroughs. From our perspective, we felt like Yingyingâs story and her familyâs stories were really lost,â Shi said. âEven for those who interviewed her family, they were just grieving.â
Shi was a Northwestern University journalism graduate student when Ms. Zhang went missing in June 2017, and initially, she came down to Champaign-Urbana both as a journalist and to help in the search.
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