Hidden Letters
Violet Du Feng is an Emmy Award-winning independent documentarian. Her producing credits include Confucian Dream, Maineland and Please Remember Me. Violet directed the most recent PBS | CPB special program Harbor from the Holocaust, which had a national premiere in September 2020 with music performed by Yo-Yo Ma. Violet started her career as a co-producer on the critically acclaimed Nanking, which won a 2007 Sundance Special Jury Award, a Peabody and an Emmy. Nanking was distributed theatrically in thirty countries around the world and was the highest grossing documentary in China. Violet is the producer of the forthcoming films Singing in the Wilderness and People’s Hospital. She is a Sundance Creative Producing Fellow and her work has received support from funders such as Sundance, ITVS DDF, IDA, Ford Foundation, Chicken & Egg Pictures and Doc Society. Violet is a consulting producer for CNEX, the Chinese Documentary Foundation, and a consulting programmer for Shanghai International Film Festival. Born in Shanghai and based in New York, Violet holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and received her MFA in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.
