Sue Ding is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Los Angeles. Her work explores race, gender, and diaspora through the lens of visual culture and place-based storytelling.
Sue directed the short documentaries The Claudia Kishi Club (SXSW) and Makeover Movie (IDFA), as well as an Emmy Award-winning episode of the docuseries Artbound. Her films can be found on Netflix, PBS, The New York Times, and Vimeo Staff Picks. She has also screened internationally at venues including Antimatter [Media Art], Mujerdoc, and Copenhagen Contemporary. In 2023, she was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.”
Sue is also a freelance director and editor for documentary and branded projects, and has a decade of producing experience. She consults and lectures widely on nonfiction filmmaking, and holds a BA from Brown University (Visual Arts) and a MS from MIT (Comparative Media).
She is passionate about art, pop culture, speculative fiction, dessert, deserts, American mythmaking, occult aesthetics, and The Fast and the Furious.