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Chi-hui-Yang

October 8, 2020
Chi-hui Yang is Senior Program Officer, JustFilms, Ford foundation and an acclaimed curator, film scholar, and educator, makes grants in film, new media, and visual storytelling for the foundation’s JustFilms program. He has global experience in supporting emerging artists and in the wider field of independent film. Before joining the foundation in 2015, Chi-hui worked extensively as a film and video curator, including as a selection committee member for MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight, consulting series producer for PBS’s POV, and curator of Comcast’s Cinema Asian America video-on-demand service. Among his independently curated programs are the 2008 Flaherty Film Seminar, the Age of Migration, and the 2014 film series and symposium Lines and Modes: Media, Infrastructure, and Aesthetics. From 2000 to 2012, he was director of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, the largest event of its kind in the nation.