Nanfu Wang & Jialing Zhang

Nanfu Wang: Nanfu Wang is a Chinese-born American filmmaker, best known for documentaries like One Child Nation and Hooligan Sparrow, which explore human rights, activism, and social history in China. Born in a remote farming village in Jiangxi Province, Wang came to the United States in 2011 and became interested in film through her graduate studies at the journalism school of Ohio University and later at New York University's News and Documentary program. Her first film, about the Chinese gender activist Ye Haiyan, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2016. Since then, as Wang’s international reputation has grown—One Child Nation, about China’s one-child policy, was shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature at the 92nd Academy Awards—so has the animosity shown toward her by her home country. Her work is consistently banned, false narratives about her are spread online, and she and her crew face continued risks from authorities whenever they film in China.

Jialing Zhang: Jialing is an Emmy Award-nominated independent Chinese filmmaker based in Massachusetts. She co-directed and produced One Child Nation, winner of Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize in 2019. Jialing worked as a freelance journalist in Beijing for 7 years for various international media outlets​. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from NYU.
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Notable works: One Child Nation (2019)