Nanfu Wang

Nanfu Wang
王男栿
Wang at the 2019 Montclair Film Festival
Born1985 (age 38–39)
OccupationDocumentary filmmaker
Nanfu Wang
Chinese王男栿
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinWáng Nánfú
IPA[wǎŋ nǎn.fǔ]

Nanfu Wang (born 1985) is a Chinese-born American filmmaker. Her debut film Hooligan Sparrow premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2017. Her second film, I Am Another You, premiered at SXSW Film Festival in 2017 and won two special jury awards, and her third film, One Child Nation, won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary Feature at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Wang is the recipient of a 2021 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Filmmaking, from the Vilcek Foundation.[1][2]

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  2. ^ "Nanfu Wang". Vilcek Foundation. Archived from the original on 27 September 2020. Retrieved 10 September 2020.