Andy COHEN

​Andy Cohen (Director/Writer/Producer)
Andrew "Andy" Cohen is an independent filmmaker and journalist. Much of his work is investigative and human rights-based.
He produced, directed or wrote several award-winning documentaries such as Dealers among Dealers (1996), Killing Kasztner (2008), Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012), The World Before Her (2012), Hooligan Sparrow (2016), Human Flow (2017), Ximei (2019) and Beijing Spring (2021), which were shown at the FIFDH Geneva, Movies That Matter, Venice Film Festival, Telluride, Tribeca, Traverse City, Toronto International Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival among others, and broadcast on PBS, BBC, UK Ch4, ARTE, Netflix, and Amazon.
​      Cohen also directed and wrote a nine-part series of short films on China’s leading contemporary artists in collaboration with Art Asia Pacific for which he is a contributing editor.
​      The following feature length documentaries are currently in post production: Send Us Your Brother (2022), Talking Tacheles (2022), The Village Gate (2023), Title Shot (2023).

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Gaylen Ross

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​Gaylen Ross (Co-Director/Writer/Producer) 
​Gaylen Ross has directed, produced,  and written award-winning documentary films for over 25 years, premiering in national and international film festivals.
She has had two films previously in the Berlin International Film Festival:  the Emmy award-winning Blood Money: Switzerland’s Nazi Gold, a feature-length documentary on the Swiss Banks and the Holocaust accounts, and her film on diamond dealers Dealers Among Dealers which aired on PBS’ P.O.V and is considered the only inside look into this very cloistered world. Among her films, Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis, was an official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival, broadcast BBC Storyville, shown in 11 countries and has enjoyed an unprecedented theatrical release in the US, Israel and France. It was named by the LA Times as one of the best documentary films of 2010.
      Her film Caris' Peace about an actress who lost her memory premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival, won first place Athens Film Festival, Ohio; and presented as the featured film for the Rubin Museum of Art’s Brainwave series in New York.​
Currently Ms. Ross is in post–production on her film TitleShot, a stark chronicle of professional boxing through the rise and fall of 1990’s junior middleweight contender Godfrey Nyakana as it focuses its lens on sides of the sweet science rarely seen.
and with Andy Cohen on the documentaries, Beijing Spring and the Village Gate.

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AI Weiwei

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​Ai Weiwei (Executive Producer) 
Ai Weiwei is renowned for making strong aesthetic statements that resonate with timely phenomena across today’s geopolitical world. From architecture to installations, social media to documentaries, Ai uses a wide range of mediums as expressions of new ways for his audiences to examine society and its values. Recent exhibitions include: Ai Weiwei: RAIZ at the Oca in São Paulo, Ai Weiwei: Life Cycle at the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles, Fan-Tan at Mucem in Marseille, Good Fences Make Good Neighbors with the Public Art Fund in New York City, Ai Weiwei on Porcelain at the Sakip Sabanci Museum in Istanbul, and Ai Weiwei: Trace at Hirshhorn at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C.
      Ai was born in Beijing in 1957 and currently resides and works in Berlin. Ai is the recipient of the 2015 Ambassador of Conscience Award from Amnesty International and the 2012 Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent from the Human Rights Foundation. Ai has made numerous documentaries about social and political issues that have won major film festival awards, including Disturbing the Peace, One Recluse, So Sorry, Ordos 100 and Ai Weiwei’s Appeal ¥15,220.910.50.​

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Chin-chin Yap

Chin-chin Yap (Producer) is a Berlin-based documentary film producer and writer on art, law and humanitarian issues. In addition to "Ximei" (2019) she recently produced "Human Flow" (2017) and "The Rest" (2019), Ai Weiwei's award-winning documentaries about the global refugee crisis. Her writing has been published by Art Asia Pacific magazine, Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts, the MIT Press, and The Tax Lawyer among others. Previously, she headed the Contemporary Asian Art department at the international auction house Phillips de Pury & Company. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in New York and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown Law Center in Washington, D.C.

​YING LU

Ying Lu  (Editor) is originally from Guangzhou, China, and  is a freelance documentary filmmaker and video journalist based in New York. Soon after she graduated from NYU News and Documentary program, her thesis film Slow Angels won the 38th College Television Award – Loreen Arbus Focus on Disability Scholarship and was selcted at Asian American International Film Festival, and North American Chinese Director Short Film Tour. Her other journalism work is also shown in various Chinese media outlets such as Pear Video and Sixth Tone. 







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