Sharon Yeung

Sharon is a Hong Kong-based director-producer who makes documentaries in short, feature and immersive formats. Her immersive work MADE: meet me at the end of the assembly line, a VR documentary that follows an iPhone factory worker in China and Create Your Own, an interactive documentary about creativity and young people’s search for identity has won the W3 and DFA Awards. Her work is driven by characters with a strong sense to mobilize change, especially around issues of gender and autonomy. In 2017, she founded Singing Cicadas; a female-led collective that creates immersive non-fiction storytelling around social justice issues. She received her BA in Film at the University of Southern California. She’s a Rooftop Filmmaker Fund Grantee, an IDFA Doc Lab fellow as well as a Sundance Producers Summit fellow and her work in progress has been supported by Sheffield Meetmarket, CPH:Forum and IDFA Forum.