CHI-HUI YANG, Senior Program Officer, JustFilms, Ford Foundation, USA

Chi-hui Yang is a Senior Program Officer for Ford Foundation’s JustFilms initiative, and makes grants globally in documentary film, new media, and visual storytelling.

Before joining the foundation in 2015, Chi-hui worked extensively as a film curator, including as a selection committee member for MoMA’s Doc Fortnight and consulting series producer for PBS’s POV. Among his independently curated programs are the 2008 Flaherty Film Seminar “The Age of Migration” and the film series and symposium “Lines and Modes: Media, Infrastructure, and Aesthetics.”

Besides he has served as the director of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, an adjunct professor in the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Hunter College Asian American Studies Program and has been an instructor at the UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art.

He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

INSTITUTE PROFILE

The Ford Foundation seeks to reduce inequality in all of its forms, and artist-driven documentary and emerging media projects are crucial to this effort. As part of the Creativity and Free Expression program, JustFilms funds social justice storytelling and the 21st-century arts infrastructure that supports it. The projects and people supported by the foundation inspire imaginations, disrupt stereotypes, and help transform the conditions that perpetuate injustice and inequality.

JustFilms supports ideas, individuals, institutions, and networks that work to reduce inequality through film, video, and emerging media platforms, with a special focus on documentary practices.