Sue Ding

Sue Ding is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and visual artist based in Los Angeles. Her work explores race, gender, and diaspora through the lens of visual culture and place-based storytelling.

Sue directed and edited the short documentaries The Claudia Kishi Club (SXSW ’20), Makeover Movie (IDFA ’23), and How the West Was Fun (True/False ’25). Her films can be found on Netflix, PBS, The New York Times, and Vimeo Staff Picks.

Her interdisciplinary practice spans film, installation, and emerging media. She also consults and lectures widely on nonfiction filmmaking and arts praxis. In 2023, she was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.”