Inspired by her experiences teaching at-risk youth along the U.S.-Mexico border, Kathy Huang produced her first documentary Scribbles Creations (2004) on a young boy coming of age in the colonias of the Rio Grande Valley. Since then, Kathy has continued to work with underrepresented communities to document social and humanitarian issues. Night Visions (2005), a soldier’s meditation on the Iraq War, screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and SILVERDOCS and received the War and Peace Award from the Media That Matters Film Festival. Miss Chinatown U.S.A. (2006), a portrait of a young woman competing in a Chinese-American beauty pageant, also screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and was broadcast on regional PBS stations. She recently completed her first feature documentary Tales of the Waria, an ITVS co-production following transgender women in the world’s most populated Muslim country, Indonesia. The film is currently making it rounds on the festival circuit and will have a national broadcast on PBS in spring 2012.

Kathy holds a B.A. in History from Harvard University and a M.A. in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University. She currently works in New York as a freelance field producer and cinematographer.

http://www.kathyhuangfilms.com