Diane Quon

Producer

AKA Mr. Chow

Three young men bond across racial lines to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. Ten years later, while facing adult responsibilities, unsettling revelations force them to reckon with their fathers, their mothers, and each other.

Minding The Gap

Traces the ascent of Ashley Chea, a basketball prodigy whose life intensifies amid recruitment, injury, and triumph throughout her high school career.

Home Court

As Donald Trump was getting sworn in as President and the Women’s March set an angry, outspoken tone for the country’s discourse, journalist Emily Ramshaw decided to meet the moment by launching The 19th. Named after the Nineteenth Amendment, The 19th became the first nonprofit, nonpartisan news agency in the United States. Its mission is to focus on the impact of national politics and policy on women. However, by the time Emily and co-founder Amanda Zamora had secured funding and officially launched The 19th’s news site, the pandemic hit — and the very fabric of society went into a tailspin. 

Breaking the News immerses its audience in the lives and steadfast pursuits of the members of The 19th — women and LGBTQ+ journalists — as they struggle to launch the agency and work to gain traction for their newsroom amidst shuttered news outlets and an upended America. With spirited storytelling, the directorial trio of Heather Courtney, Princess A. Hairston, and Chelsea Hernandez provide an inquisitive and dynamic view into the inner workings of this news agency as its journalists disrupt entrenched biases and push for accountability.––Jose Rodriguez

Breaking The News

A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-American family in rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, racial reckoning, and generational scars from the Cambodian Killing Fields.

Bad Axe

Finding Yingying is an Emmy-nominated feature length verite documentary that tells the story of a Chinese family’s search for their daughter--an international student kidnapped within her first weeks in Illinois in 2017. Although a suspect has been arrested, Yingying is still missing and presumed dead. As foreigners dealing with the U.S. criminal justice system, Yingying’s heartbroken family seek justice and closure as the murder mystery unfolds. A revealing examination of the role of Chinese students in the U.S.