Selena (Xin) Jin is an Award Winning Costume Designer & Filmmaker. Working both in US & CHINA, she is a multidisciplinary visual artist, whose talent ranges across Costume Design, Directing, Painting, Fashion Design & Styling.
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MFA | Costume Design
California Institute of the Arts, US
BA | Costume Design for Performance
University of the Arts London, UK
CERT | Filmmaking
London Film Academy, UK
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2024 | Playboy Becomes My Play Toy Costume Designer
2024 | EUROPA Costume Designer
2023 | The Lady of the House of Love, UK Costume & Production Designer / Director/ Writer
2023 | SPLIT, US Costume Designer
2023 | FILA COMMERCIAL, US Stylist
2023 | SUNYATA, US Costume Designer
2023 | XÍNG, US Costume Designer
2022 | Swallowtail & Dragonfly, US Costume Designer
2021 | Qian Xing Zhe, CN Costume Designer
2021 | “ANESSA” Commercial, CN Stylist
2020 | The Collector, US Costume Designer
2019 | Summer in Gossensass , US Costume Designer
2019 | Molly’s Dream, US Costume Designer
2019 | BLOOM, US Costume Designer
2019 | Hollywood Playhood, US Costume Designer
2019 | WHAT THE HELL, US Costume Designer
2018 | In2ruder, UK Wardrobe Department
2018 | Gold for Love, UK Story Writer/ Camera Operator
2017 | O2, UK Assistant Stylist
2017 | IKEA, UK Assistant Stylist
2017 | Switch Bank, UK Assistant Stylist
AWARDS
* WINNER “Best Fantasy Film” Top Shorts Film Festival
* WINNER “Best Horror Screenplay” “Best Costume Design” “Honorable Mention (Horror)” Los Angeles Film Awards
* WINNER “Best Student Fantasy Short” “Best Student Director (Female)” “Best Costume Design” “Honorable Mention (Adapted Screenplay)” IndieX Film Fest
* WINNER “Best Costume Design” “Outstanding Achievement Award (Fantasy Short)” Indie Short Fest
* WINNER “Costume Winner & Best Make Up” I AM Film Festival, 2022
* WINNER “Best Fantasy Film” Fantasy Sci-Fi Festival
* WINNER “ Best Production Design” “Best Actress” New York Cinematography Awards for “ The Lady of the House of Love”
* WINNER “Best Fantasy Film” Fantasy Sci-Fi Festival
* WINNER “Best Costume Design” New York Cinematography Award for “BLOOM”
* WINNER “Best Costume Design”. New Creators Film Awards
* WINNER“Best Horror” “Best Actress” “Best Cinematography” “Best Original Score” “Best Costume Design” Hollywood Blood Horror Festival
* WINNER “Best Costume Design” London International Monthly Film Festival
* WINNER “Best Costume Design” “Best Production Design Honorable Mention” Cinematic European Film Festival
* WINNER “Best Costume Design” Cannes World Film Fest
* WINNER “Best Fantasy Short Film” Hallucinea Film Festival
* WINNER “Costume Design” (Silver Award) Latitude Film Awards
* FINALIST “Best Production Design” Next Generation Indie Film Awards
* NOMINEE “Best Horror Film” New Creators Film Awards
*HONORABLE MENTION “Best Costume” Oniros Film Awards®
SELENA XIN JIN
More than 10 Best Costume Design awards, she has designed costumes in feature and short films, commercials, music videos, TV and celebrity styling.
Feature films including: Swallowtail & Dragonfly (2024), Intruders (2018). Short Film including: Mr SUNYATA(2023), Bloom(2019), The Collector (2019). Theater productions including: “Summer in Gossensass”(2019) “Molly’s Dream”(2019). Commercial clients include: FILA, O2, ANESSA and IKEA.
Celebrities she has worked with including: Yisa Yu, Hachi Wang, Esther Yu, Vanessa Yao, Russell Wong.
Selena Xin Jin creates her own films telling stories through visual narrative, including: The Lady of the House of Love(2018), Heart of Gold(2017), Anonymous Call(2017)
MFA 2023 in Design from California Institute of the Arts where she received the Lillian Disney Fund Scholarship.
BA 2018 in Performance Design from the London College of Fashion.
Self-defined as third cultured, Selena lives in London Toronto Shanghai and LA.
Re-interpreting the landscape between east and west.
BEST FANTASY FILM
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BEST HORROR SCREENPLAY
HONORABLE MENTION: HORROR
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BEST HORROR FILM
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN NOMINATION
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
FANTASY SHORTS OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY HONORABLE MENTION
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BEST COSTUME & PRODUCTION DESIGN
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BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN FINALIST
