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Ying Wencie Hoang (she/her)
"As an aspiring documentary film director, I have great interests in expanding film's platform to be one that is inclusive to all stories.
Hello! My name is Ying Wencie Hoang. I have a passion in social justice/advocacy, environmental sustainability, and sharing the stories of underrepresented communities of color through the medium of film."
Ying Wencie Hoang graduated from San Francisco State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema and a minor in Race and Resistance Studies. Throughout her studies, she maintained a 4.0 grade-point average — the highest among all graduating Cinema students. Currently, she is the Communications Coordinator for the Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley. Prior, she worked as an Administrative and Programs Assistant. During her time at Chinese for Affirmative Action, Wencie supported four program teams—Immigration Rights, Economic Justice, Civic Engagement, and Administrative/Development—with multimedia projects and provided in-language direct services for the Chinese-immigrant community of San Francisco. In university, she worked as a publicity assistant in the College of Liberal and Creative Arts communications team, where she told stories about the College’s faculty, students and alumni.
With ambitions of being a documentary filmmaker, Hoang was the president of the Feminist Filmmaker Fellowship, a SF State club dedicated to supporting women and non-binary filmmakers. She’s developed a variety of programming for the group, including resume-building workshops, movie nights and other themed socials.
Her student film “Our Stories: College from Home” captured the unique experiences of SF State students during the pandemic, telling stories of formerly incarcerated students, students facing homelessness and those dealing with loneliness. Hoang combined her concern for Asian American representation in film with the craft of filmmaking as a research assistant and post-production intern on SF State Asian American Studies Professor Valerie Soe’s film “Loveboat: Taiwan.” The documentary tells the story of a summer program for college-aged Taiwanese and Chinese students where romance often flourished.
"As an aspiring documentary film director, I have great interests in expanding film's platform to be one that is inclusive to all stories.
Hello! My name is Ying Wencie Hoang. I have a passion in social justice/advocacy, environmental sustainability, and sharing the stories of underrepresented communities of color through the medium of film."
Ying Wencie Hoang graduated from San Francisco State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema and a minor in Race and Resistance Studies. Throughout her studies, she maintained a 4.0 grade-point average — the highest among all graduating Cinema students. Currently, she is the Communications Coordinator for the Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley. Prior, she worked as an Administrative and Programs Assistant. During her time at Chinese for Affirmative Action, Wencie supported four program teams—Immigration Rights, Economic Justice, Civic Engagement, and Administrative/Development—with multimedia projects and provided in-language direct services for the Chinese-immigrant community of San Francisco. In university, she worked as a publicity assistant in the College of Liberal and Creative Arts communications team, where she told stories about the College’s faculty, students and alumni.
With ambitions of being a documentary filmmaker, Hoang was the president of the Feminist Filmmaker Fellowship, a SF State club dedicated to supporting women and non-binary filmmakers. She’s developed a variety of programming for the group, including resume-building workshops, movie nights and other themed socials.
Her student film “Our Stories: College from Home” captured the unique experiences of SF State students during the pandemic, telling stories of formerly incarcerated students, students facing homelessness and those dealing with loneliness. Hoang combined her concern for Asian American representation in film with the craft of filmmaking as a research assistant and post-production intern on SF State Asian American Studies Professor Valerie Soe’s film “Loveboat: Taiwan.” The documentary tells the story of a summer program for college-aged Taiwanese and Chinese students where romance often flourished.