Jialing Zhang

Jialing Zhang is a producer and filmmaker based in Beijing and Massachusetts. Her first film was the short documentary When the Last Tree Dies in 2016 about the water crisis in the North China Plain. She co-directed and edited Complicit, a feature documentary that premiered at the 2017 Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Zhang’s work as a producer has appeared on VICE, HBO, Fusion TV, and the New York Times. She received her first APSA nomination for One Child Policy, which she co-directed with activist filmmaker Nanfu Wang. She won the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize for this film as well as the Tim Hetherington Award from the Sheffield International Documentary Festival and nominated for many more.