Arthur dong deepfocus productions series#

Arthur dong deepfocus productions series#

His 1989 film on Chinatown nightclubs Forbidden City, USA was broadcast on the American Experience series, and his 2007 documentary on the history of the Chinese in American feature films Hollywood Chinese was broadcast on the series American Masters, which won the Emmy that year for outstanding non-fiction series. For ITVS, he produced and directed Out Rage '69, which chronicled the Stonewall Riots and premiered the PBS series on LBGT rights, The Question of Equality in 1995.

įor television, Dong was an associate producer for KGO-TV in San Francisco from 1981 to 1982 and a producer at KCET in Los Angeles from 1991 to 1992 (producing for Life & Times). Other honors include five Emmy nominations, the Berlin Film Festival's Teddy Award, the Golden Horse Award from Taiwan, as well as being selected a Sundance Documentary Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow in Film, and a Rockefeller Fellow in Media Arts. He received a nomination for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1984 for Sewing Woman, a film about his mother's immigration from China to America a Peabody Award in 1995 for Coming Out Under Fire, which documented the US military's WW2 policy on gays in the military and two Sundance Film Festival Awards for his profile of convicted murderers who killed gay men, Licensed to Kill. In 1982, Dong founded DeepFocus Productions, Inc, where he continues to serve as producer, director, writer, and distributor. Dong helped re-discover while researching for his Hollywood Chinese documentary. During his tenure at the National Film Preservation Board, he successfully nominated and lobbied for the selection of two seminal Chinese American films into the National Film Registry: Flower Drum Song (1961) and The Curse of Quon Gwon (1916), the earliest known film produced and directed by an Asian American that Mr. At the Academy, he was among the original architects that advocated for and founded the Academy's Documentary Branch in 2001 he was also a decade-long member of the organization's Documentary Executive Committee that helped to shape the new branch.

He is also a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and has served on the boards of Film Independent (formerly IFP/West), the National Film Preservation Board at the Library of Congress, and Outfest. In 2007, SFSU named Dong its Alumnus of the year “for his continued success in the challenging arena of independent documentary filmmaking and his longstanding commitment to social justice.' ĭong is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences where he served on the Board of Governors from 2002 to 2006 (Documentary Branch). He received his BA in film from San Francisco State University and also holds a Directing Fellow Certificate from the American Film Institute Center for Advanced Film Studies. He was raised in San Francisco, California, graduating from Galileo High School in June 1971. Arthur Dong is an American filmmaker and author whose work centers on Asia America and anti-gay prejudice.