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Cheyenne Tan is an Academy Award and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. She co-produced “St. Louis Superman”, which was 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 on 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 Co-Producer of the Oscars 2025-shortlisted and Austin Film Festival-winning short documentary, “I Am Ready, Warden”. The short has also been nominated for a Critics Choice Award for Best Short Documentary. She is set to make her directorial debut on a short documentary, “Becoming My Mother”. Cheyenne is also an Archival Producer on Coodie & Chike’s next documentary feature. 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, 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 and lives in Los Angeles, CA. with her orange girl cat, Raya.
