Wenhwa Ts'Ao

Wenhwa Ts'ao is the recipient of the Kodak Faculty Scholar Award, the Individual Artist Support Initiative Artists Fellowship, the Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Media Artist Fellowship, the Appalshop Southeast Media Program Fellowship. She has received grants from the City of Chicago Community Arts Program, the Columbia College Faculty Development Grant, and Ilford Imaging. In 2011, Ts'ao was selected for the American Film Institute Directing Workshop for Women.

Her shorts have screened in numerous film festivals including Palm Spring International ShortFest, Montreal World Film Festival, San Francisco Asian American Film Festival, Creteil Festival International de Film de Femmes, Vancouver International Film Festival, MadCat Women's International Film Festival, Mill Valley International Film Festival, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Victoria Independent Film Festival, the Chicago Film Festival, and in festivals and showcases in China, Romania, Mexico, Ecuador, Korea, Iran, Africa and the Netherlands.