Yang Sun
YANG SUN is a Beijing-based documentary director and cameraman. He is on staff at China’s Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio, making documentaries for broadcasters including CCTV, Youku and the Travel Channel. He has directed several short and mid-length documentaries, including The Second Album, Aken, After He Rose To Fame, as well as the ten-part series Take Me To Travel. He worked as a director of photography on A Century With …
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Jean Tsien
Jean Tsien has been working in documentary for 35 years as an editor, producer, and consultant. Her editing credits include Scottsboro: An American Tragedy, a 2001 Academy Award nominee. Dixie Chicks: Shut Up & Sing and Miss Sharon Jones! both of which were shortlisted for the Academy Award. Tsien consulted on many award-winning films such as: American Factory, Crime + Punishment, Rich Hill, Hooligan …
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Betsy Tsai
Betsy Tsai is a director and producer. She most recently produced Confucian Dream (Special Jury Prize, Karlovy Vary 2019) and was an associate producer for Our Time Machine (Tribeca 2019). From 2015-2020, she was a staff member of the Documentary Film Program at Sundance Institute, where she provided critical operational and curatorial support for the Sundance Documentary Fund, which awards over $1.5 million in grant awards to feature documentary films …
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Daniel Chein
Daniel Chein is an independent filmmaker and recipient of the 2017 Princess Grace Film Award. His most recent film Basha Man won the Student Film Award at CAAMFest2017. As an editor, his work on Changa Revisited earned the film the OutStanDox Award at the Astra Film Festival. Daniel is an Associate Producer for Walking Iris Media and a board member of the Global Lives Project. He is currently completing his …
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Richard Liang
Richard Liang has been working on documentaries for over 10 years. As one of the most active producers building bridges between Chinese filmmakers and international market, Richard has produced several documentaries with international partners. In addition to being a producer, he is also a distributor and event organizer. He runs a copyright agency for feature documentaries in China; he has been scouting Chinese films for IDFA since 2013 and was …
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Jian Fan
Jian Fan is a documentary director who focuses on Chinese social issues through character-driven storytelling. He has directed six feature-length documentary films, most recently Still Tomorrow, (Special Jury Award, IDFA 2016; HotDocs 2017). His work has screened in competition at the Berlinale, Full Frame, Sheffield, Busan, and dozens of other film festivals around the world. Jian studied at the Beijing Film Academy and is now based in Chongqing, China.
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Yvonne Welbon
Yvonne Welbon is Senior Creative Consultant at Chicken & Egg Pictures, an award-winning filmmaker and Founder and CEO of the Chicago-based non-profit Sisters in Cinema. She has produced over 20 films which have been screened on PBS, Starz, TV-ONE, Bravo, BET, HBO, Netflix, iTunes, etc. and in over 100 film festivals around the world. Raised in an Afro-Latinx Honduran household, Welbon lived in Taipei, Taiwan for six years, received a …
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Johnny Symons
JOHNNY SYMONS is a veteran documentary filmmaker. His film Daddy & Papa (2002), about gay men raising kids, premiered at Sundance, aired on PBS’ Independent Lens and received an Emmy nomination for Best Documentary. Johnny co-produced the Academy Award-nominated Long Night’s Journey Into Day (2000), about South Africa’s search for truth and reconciliation, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at …
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Laura Nix
LAURA NIX is an independent filmmaker committed to exploring provocative characters and subject matter. She directed the documentary The Light In Her Eyes, about a Syrian Quran school for women, which premiered at IDFA in 2011, was broadcast on the series POV on PBS, and was included in Sundance’s Film Forward program. Other feature directing credits include the critically acclaimed fiction feature The Politics of Fur, Whether You Like …
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Sally Wu
SALLY WU was born and raised in Taiwan. She studied media and advertising before transitioning into documentary film editing. She produced & co-directed The Mosou Sisters, the story of two spirited daughters from China’s last matriarchal society, which was funded by ITVS and aired on PBS’s Global Voice in 2014. She spent five years collaborating as an editor with David Sutherland on his six hour FRONTLINE series, Country Boys, …
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