<aside> 👋🏼 I am a Chinese diasporic documentary filmmaker and visual journalist with roots in the Bay Area, California. Having grown up as the daughter of immigrants, my work applies community-centered documentary tactics to amplify stories at the intersection of justice and human relationships, looking at topics like labor, housing, migration and sustainability.
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<aside> 🎥 My personal documentary short, Golden Boy, explores themes of reconciliation, immigration, and caregiving in the aftermath of my mother’s brain injury, and is currently looking for distribution. Golden Boy has played in Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Chinese American Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, D.C. Chinese Film Festival, Seattle Asian American Film Festival, Houston Asian American Pacific Islander Film Festival (Jury Award - Documentary Short), Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, DOC NYC.
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<aside> 💪🏽 As a member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Asian American Documentary Network and Asian American Journalists Association, I have received generous opportunities to amplify stories about community resistance in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, intergenerational restaurants in Koreatown, and youth mobilization in suburban Fremont, California. My work can be found on NBC Asian America, Hulu, HBO Max, CNN+, Waterbear, and various other platforms.
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<aside> 🫂 Outside of film, I serve as a narrative strategist and support the National Asian American Leaders Table (hosted by Asian Law Caucus). I have a B.A. in film and international development studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. Currently based in Brooklyn, NY, on Munsee Lenape and Canarsie land.
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✉️ reach me at — kittyxhu [at] gmail [dot] com