Hidden Letters director Violet Du Feng and A-Doc founder, filmmaker and AMPAS member S. Leo Chiang discuss the challenges to telling Chinese stories in this exclusive talkback.
After premieres at Tribeca and the BFI London Film Festival and scooping up the Best Documentary Award at the Heartland Film Festival and Best International Feature at Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, HIDDEN LETTERS will open in theaters on December 9th at Landmark’s Quad Cinema in New York City. The awards-eligible film will also open in LA and across the US and Canada.
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Violet Du Feng is a documentary filmmaker and a 2018 Sundance Creative Producing Fellow. She produced DEAR MOTHER, I MEANT TO WRITE ABOUT DEATH, SINGING IN THE WILDERNESS, CONFUCIAN DREAM, MAINELAND, and PLEASE REMEMBER ME, which have won many awards including Doc Impact Hi5, Special Jury Awards at SXSW and Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Feng started her career as a co-producer on the 2007 award-winning NANKING. She is the consulting programmer of Shanghai International Film Festival. HIDDEN LETTERS is her second feature-length documentary as a director.
S. Leo Chiang is a filmmaker based in San Francisco and Taipei. His latest film, Our Time Machine, played at over 50 film festivals worldwide, winning 10 awards, and nominated for an Emmy Award (News & Documentary) and a Gotham Award. He recently directed two episodes of the Peabody Award-winning 5-part PBS series, Asian Americans.
He is a co-founder of the Asian American Documentary Network (A-Doc) and previously the co-chair of New Day Films. Leo is a consulting producer for CNEX, the Chinese documentary foundation, and a Documentary branch member of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences (AMPAS).
