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 poetics.
Sue directed the short documentary The Claudia Kishi Club, which premiered at SXSW and was acquired by Netflix, and an Emmy Award-winning episode of the docuseries Artbound. Her films can be found on PBS, The New York Times, and Vimeo Staff Picks, and have screened internationally at venues including IDFA, Antimatter [Media Art], 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 produced series for PBS, Firelight Media, and Showtime. 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.