About

James Qiu is a Chinese-Canadian independent producer, focusing on audiovisual projects by immigrant and diaspora artists. He has produced numerous films across North America and Asia that went on to screen at SFFILM, CAAMFest, True/False, MoMA, and the 71st Berlinale.

In 2018, he assisted Taiwanese director Huang Hsin-yao and Cheng Cheng Films in the Academy Awards campaign for The Great Buddha+. In 2020, he was awarded the Akhtar-Bhutta Production Fund from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, his alma mater, for the 2D animation How Small! (SFFILM 2022). That same year, he was a participant in the IF/Then Southeast Asia - Story Development Lab, supported by Tribeca Film Institute and Docs by the Sea.

His latest projects are the visual album Teen Troubles in Dirty Jersey for the Korean rock musician The Black Skirts, and the documentary Sandcastles which is world premiering at SXSW 2024. James is currently based on the traditional, ancestral and unceded First Nation territories commonly known as Vancouver.

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