Sue Ding is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and visual artist based in Los Angeles. Her work explores race, gender, and diaspora through the lens of visual culture and place-based storytelling.

Sue directed and edited the short documentaries The Claudia Kishi Club (SXSW ’20), Makeover Movie (IDFA ’23), and How the West Was Fun (True/False ’25). Her films can be found on Netflix, PBS, The New York Times, and Vimeo Staff Picks. In 2023, she was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film”. She is a 2026 Creative Capital Awardee and Concordia Fellow.

Sue also consults and lectures widely on nonfiction filmmaking, and has a decade of producing experience. She holds a BA from Brown University (Visual Arts) and a MS from MIT (Comparative Media).

She is passionate about art, pop culture, speculative fiction, dessert, deserts, American mythmaking, occult aesthetics, and The Fast and the Furious.