Frances E. Chang is a first-generation Chinese-Vietnamese-American born to a Sino Vietnamese refugee mother who immigrated to the United States during her escape from Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975. Chang entered filmmaking in her senior semester at the University of California, Berkeley, while studying Mass Communications. Within a year, Chang’s potential and hardcore work ethic led to opportunities with ABC 7, Disney-ABC International Television, and Pixar Animation Studios. Chang instead attended Berkeley Digital Film Institute, where she produced numerous student shorts. After moving back to the Los Angeles county, Chang interned at Fortune Cookie Production and Cape Cod Films, where she worked in distribution and marketing for multi-festival winner, Wild About Harry. Chang also came on board as Researcher on the documentary, Tyrus Wong: Brushstrokes in Hollywood. As a young, aspiring filmmaker, Chang has worked in the film industry in both Northern and Southern California and often represents diverse, ethnic, and underrepresented voices in her projects. Chang currently works as a freelance producer, while writing her first feature, All About My Teenage Daughter, and developing another based off of her mother’s refugee story.