- Violet Du Feng is an Emmy® Award-winning documentary filmmaker known for creating nuanced, intimate, and thought-provoking films that explore larger social issues. Over the past decade, she has directed, produced, and executive produced more than fifteen films. Her directing credits include THE DATING GAME, which premiered at Sundance 2025 in World Cinema Documentary Competition, and HIDDEN LETTERS, an Oscar®-shortlisted, Emmy® and Peabody nominated film that debuted at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival in documentary competition. HIDDEN LETTERS went on to win eleven festival awards and was broadcast in 15 countries. Violet is a member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and serves as an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Journalism School.
- IMDb mini biography by: Documentary Producers Alliance
- Served as an advisor for Sundance's Creative Producing Lab, AIDC, CAAM, Hot Docs, Doc Edge, CNEX and the Shanghai Film Festival.
- Recipient of the 2021 Rockwood JustFilms Fellowship.
- Recipient of the 2018 Sundance Creative Producing Fellowship.
- Recipient of the 2023 Sundance Momentum Fellowship.
- Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the Documentary branch.
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