A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Cindy Fang graduated from UC San Diego with a BA in Interactive Media and later earned her MFA in Film Production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Through a joint grant from Visual Communications and ABC Entertainment, Cindy wrote, directed, and produced a short mockumentary entitled How to Be a Hong Kong Superstar, which played on television and enjoyed a successful festival run.

Her original feature-length dramatic screenplay, co-written with Alice Kim about the Japanese American internment of WWII, A Crossroads Called Manzanar, won numerous accolades including quarterfinalist for the Nicholl Fellowship, Slamdance Screenplay Contest, and Scriptapalooza Contest. Cindy was recently awarded with the California Civil Liberties Grant and is currently in post-production on the adapted short version of the film, which she produced and directed.

Cindy also produced the independent feature comedy, Mr. Sadman, about a Saddam Hussein lookalike who moves to Los Angeles to start a new life. It was an official selection of the 2008 IFP Narrative Rough Cut Labs and a finalist for the inaugural $50,000 IFP Finishing Grant.

Cindy was a fellow in Film Independent’s Project:Involve program for emerging filmmakers. She produced Steps, a short film sponsored by Vanity Fair and Banana Republic. Through this fellowship she was mentored by Heather Rae, who produced the Oscar-nominated Frozen River, starring Melissa Leo.