Taiwanese filmmaker Fan Wu raises political questions about human agency and social structures through making personal films.
Her debut project XiXi earned her the Emerging International Filmmaker Award at the 2024 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. XiXi was supported by the Sundance Documentary Fund and the Asian Cinema Fund – Asian Network of Documentary Fund, and was showcased in Cannes Doc 2021.
She co-founded Svemirko Film with Filipino filmmaker Venice Atienza. Their first production Last Days at Sea, directed by Venice Atienza, premiered at the 71st Berlinale.
Fan Wu is an alumna of Rotterdam Lab, IDFAcademy, CIRCLE – Women Doc Accelerator and the European MFA program DocNomads. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and is a member of DAE – Documentary Association of Europe.
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