Mona Chu is a filmmaker and producer based in New York, working across fiction and non-fiction, with a focus on internationally oriented, author-driven projects.​ ​​Chu’s producing work has premiered at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival, and the 29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival.

 

Before her work in independent cinema, Chu held senior creative roles at Hunan TV, where she led the development and production of large-scale unscripted formats and live broadcasts. She directed over 90 episodes and oversaw projects that engaged with contemporary social and gender dynamics. Her series Wo Jia Na Gui Nv, widely regarded as one of the first major Chinese shows centered on the lives of unmarried women from China’s one-child policy generation, received a Magnolia Award nomination at the 25th Shanghai International TV Festival.

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Chu holds an MFA in Film from Columbia University and is an alumna of the La Fémis Producing Atelier. She has taught nonfiction filmmaking at Columbia, where her students have received honors, including the Student Academy Awards.