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.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and emerging. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
