Winnie Cheung
Winnie is a Hong Kong born, New York filmmaker at the cross section of documentary and horror. She mixes fictionalized tales with half-truths for unsettling cinematic experiences.
In 2019, Winnie’s morbid animated short Albatross Soup premiered at Sundance Hong Kong, won Vimeo Animation of the Year and Short of the Week’s “Short of the Year”. In 2021, Winnie produced, sound designed and edited Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, Kier-La Janisse’s epic feature length documentary on the history of folk horror which went on to win SXSW’s Midnighters Audience Award and Best Documentary at Fantasia International Film Festival. Residency Winnie’s feature film debuted at Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2023.
Winnie is a proud Posse Scholar, a Jerome Foundation Video & Film Fellow and an artist in residence at Meerkat Media, a New York based cooperatively-owned media company.