Chi-hui Yang

Senior Program Officer

Chi-hui Yang is a Senior Program Officer for Ford Foundation’s JustFilms initiative, and makes grants globally in documentary film, new media, and visual storytelling. Chi-hui has worked extensively as a film curator, including as a selection committee member for MoMA’s Doc Fortnight and consulting series producer for PBS’s POV. Among his independently curated programs are the 2008 Flaherty Film Seminar “The Age of Migration” and the film series and symposium “Lines and Modes: Media, Infrastructure, and Aesthetics.” From 2000 to 2010, he was director of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, the largest event of its kind in the nation. Chi-hui has served as an adjunct professor in the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Hunter College Asian American Studies Program. Chi-hui earned a master’s degree in film studies from San Francisco State University and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Stanford University. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Participating Sessions

FUNDING SHIFT

The reckonings over race, power and the role of media are forcing a reevaluation among funders across the country. Not only are foundations beginning to ask new questions of their applicants, but they are interrogating their own grant-making, with some even changing their grant review and selection process to cede their own agency and power and to render their decisions more transparent. The shift includes new application questions designed to...