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Cheyenne Tan is a filmmaker whose film she co-produced, “St. Louis Superman”, has been nominated for the 92nd Academy Awards in the Documentary Short Subject category. It won a Critics’ Choice Award for Best Short Documentary and was named one of the International Documentary Association’s Documentaries Of The Decade. She also was a Co-Producer of a documentary short for Sesame Workshop and HBO Max called “Through Our Eyes: Shelter” which has been nominated for the 2022 News & Documentary Emmy Award in the Outstanding Short Documentary category, a Humanitas Prize, and an NAACP Image Award.
Most recently, Cheyenne is Supervising Producer on a docuseries, “Bollywood Dance U”, slated for release in 2024 on National Geographic. She is set to make her directorial debut on a short documentary, “Becoming My Mother” and is also an Archival Producer on “Kendall’s Cross” a feature documentary directed by Coodie & Chike set for release in 2024. She was a Field Producer on Netflix’s docuseries “The Romantics” about the history of Bollywood. In the past, Cheyenne co-produced an ad campaign and documentary short, “Unskippable” starring Theo Germaine which screened at the Cannes Lion, Advertising Week, for The United Nations in association with Google and Tribeca Studios and the 2020 United Nations General Assembly.
In 2022, Cheyenne was listed as one of Forbes Asia’s 30 Under 30, one of the 8 Malaysians on the 300-long list. She was also nominated for a Women of the Future Southeast Asia Award, an award that Pinky Lilani CBE DL founded to provide a platform for the remarkable female talent in Southeast Asia. In 2011, She was named one of the BOH Cameronian Awards’s Game Changer of the Year, an award that celebrates Malaysians who made their marks in the international arena with their artistic vision and excellence.
Cheyenne co-founded the production company Jia & York and is based in Los Angeles, CA.
