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Cheyenne Tan (陈家盈) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. She co-produced “St. Louis Superman”, nominated for the 92nd Academy Awards in the Documentary Short category, and “I Am Ready, Warden”, nominated for the 97th Academy Awards in the same category. Both films were also nominated for the Critics Choice Award. She was a Co-Producer on a documentary short for Sesame Workshop and 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 set to make her directorial debut with a short documentary, “Becoming My Mother” and is an Archival Producer on Coodie & Chike’s next documentary feature. She is a Field Producer for Netflix’s docuseries, “The Romantics,” and in the past, Cheyenne co-produced an ad campaign and documentary short, “Unskippable” starring Theo Germaine for The United Nations in association with Google and Tribeca Studios.
In 2022, Cheyenne was listed as one of Forbes Asia’s 30 Under 30, among 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 2021, She was named one of the BOH Cameronian Awards’s Game Changer of the Year.
Cheyenne co-founded the production company Jia & York is based in Los Angeles, CA. with her cat, Raya.
