Faye Yuan
Writer, Producer, Editor
Born in Shanghai and raised in the Midwest, J. Faye Yuan is a New York-based Chinese American producer, editor, and curator. She has edited two award-winning documentaries about modern China, while producing creative nonfiction shorts, series, and podcasts. She is currently producing a first-person essay film about a Korean adoptee’s decade-long search for his birth family, which has garnered support from American Public Television, Center for Asian American Media, Seoul Film Commission, Korea Film Commission, and Tribeca Creators Market. She is a PBS Ignite Filmmaker, where she produced and directed for PBS Digital Studios, an International Documentary Association Getting Real Fellow, and an Asian American Documentary Network Impact Fellow.
In addition to filmmaking, she is the curator for the Queens Memory Project – a community-centered archiving initiative supported by Queens Public Library and Queens College – and the host of its multilingual podcast about Asian immigrant communities in Queens, NY.