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Cheyenne Tan (陈家盈) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated and once 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 in 2020 and 2024, respectively, for Best Short Documentary, with “St. Louis Superman” winning.
She was also a co-producer on a documentary short for Sesame Workshop and HBO Max called “Through Our Eyes: Shelter” which was nominated for the 2022 News & Documentary Emmy Award in the Outstanding Short Documentary category, a Humanitas Prize, and an NAACP Image Award.
Cheyenne is most recently a fellow of the Netflix & Blackhouse Nonfiction Producer Fellowship, where she became Blackhouse Foundation’s first non-Black fellow. While on the fellowship, she joined the producing team of Luminant Media and Netflix’s historical documentary series, “Turning Point: The Vietnam War”. She is also set to make her directorial debut with a short documentary, “Becoming My Mother”. Previously, Cheyenne was an archival producer on Coodie & Chike’s latest documentary feature and a field producer for Netflix’s docuseries, “The Romantics.” 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 2019. Her work has been screened at film festivals such as Tribeca Film Festival, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, and DOC NYC, and on streamers such as Netflix, HBO Max, and Paramount+.
In 2022, Cheyenne was listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list, among the 8 Malaysians on the 300-long list. She now lives in Los Angeles, where she gets to work on cool projects.
