Shuling Yong

Shuling Yong is a Singapore-born, Chicago-based documentary filmmaker with a passion for social change. She has worked on films like RADICAL GRACE (dir. Rebecca Parrish, 2015), IN TIME TO COME (dir. Tan Pin Pin, 2017), and films by the award-winning Chicago media collective Kartemquin Films such as IN THE GAME (dir. Maria Finitzo, 2015) and AMERICA TO ME (dir. Steve James, 2018). Shuling’s most recent film, GROWING ROOTS, premiered on the Discovery Channel. She is now 5 directing her first feature-length documentary, INTUITION, which was selected for Good Pitch2 Southeast Asia 2017. Shuling is a Kartemquin Films Diverse Voices in Docs Fellow, a participating filmmaker at the BRITDOC Queer Impact Producers Lab, the DocNet Southeast Asia Strategy Workshop and the KOMAS Video For Change Forum.