Yehui Zhao is an award-winning filmmaker and artist whose work explores migration, decolonization, heritage, and regeneration. Her work takes root in the feminist legacies of the global south, drawing inspiration from revolutionary history, womanhood and daughtership, and the community’s undocumented collective memory. Yehui’s films have been shown at True/False, Dokufest, DOC NYC, UnionDocs, Prismatic Ground, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Asian American International Film Festival, and other programs. Yehui has published paintings, prints, and writing at Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn Review and Action, Spectacle. She is a recipient of the IDA Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund, the New York State Council on the Arts grant, and the York Women in Film and Television Scholarship. Yehui holds an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College and a Master of Science in Social Work from Columbia University. Yehui is an Adjunct Professor at Marymount Manhattan College in the Communication and Media Arts Department.
say hi: yehuizhao0320@gmail.com
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press/interview
From Soil to Soil: Chinese filmmaker charts her family’s rise from harsh rural roots, South China Morning Post, 2024 Read the print version here
Screenings and Selections
2025
Dokufest 2025, Green Dox Competition, Prizren, Kosovo
Prismatic Ground Year Five, co-presented with Brooklyn Academy of Music & UnionDocs - Center for Documentary Art, Brooklyn, New York
True/False Film Festival 2025, Columbia, Missouri
2024
UNDO Spotlight: A Showcase of Supported Projects, UnionDocs, Queens, NY
Hei’er, 205 Hudson Gallery Space, Hunter College
2023
To You, Spectacle Theater, curated by Everybody Press, Brooklyn, NY
Hei’er, NYWIFT Member Screening Showcase at the SOHO International Film Festival, Village East by Angelika, New York, NY
Hei’er, UnionDocs, Queens, NY
Xun, UnionDocs, Queens, NY
To You, UnionDocs, Queens, NY
Xi Jiao Gou (work-in-progress), UnionDocs, Queens, NY
Ride Home (performance), Rubin Museum of Art with Brooklyn Rail, New York, NY
2022
Hei’er, *Finalist, International Moving Film Festival, New York, NY
To Grandma, *Honorable Mention, Splice Film Festival, Brooklyn, New York
Hei’er, DOC NYC, New York, NY
Hei’er, Prismatic Ground, New York, NY
Hei’er, Sipontum Arthouse International Film Festival
Heier, Toronto International Women Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
Hei’er, Amsterdam Short Film Festival, Amsterdam
To Grandma, Festival of Animated Objects, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2021
Lin Hei’er, Documenting histories, Asia, Asian-America, Hunter College, New York, NY
To You, Timeless Awards, Wrocław, Poland
To You (semi-finalist), International Moving Film Festival, Abadan, Iran
To You, Spain Moving Images Festival, Madrid, Spain
The Death of Memories, Darkroom Film Festival, London, EN
To You, Prague International Indie Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
A Walk between Brownsville and Prospect Heights, Zen Center of New York City, Brooklyn, NY
2020
Xun, 43rd Asian American Film Festival, New York, NY
Xun, Across the Universe, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Xun, Integrated Channels Exhibition, Hunter College, New York, NY
Decolonizing Wealth, People’s Forum, New York, NY
Small Business Survival Forum, Community Board 12, New York, NY
Awards and Scholarships
IDA Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund
New York State Council on the Arts 2024 Artist Grant
New York Women in Film & Television 2023 Scholarship
Firecracker Award: Best Debut Magazine - 128 Lit (role: Co-founder & Art Director)
Painting/prints/writing Publications
A Troupe of Twenty-Four Images Marches”: An Interview with Lynne Sachs, 128 LIT, Brooklyn, NY
My Women (cover art & layout design), 128 LIT, Brooklyn, NY
Kong Hou (cover art), 128 LIT, Brooklyn, NY
Ride Home, Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, NY
Geophyte, Ligeia Magazine, Baltimore, Maryland
Childhood Home, Ligeia Magazine, Baltimore, Maryland
Fall, Brooklyn Review, Brooklyn, NY
Mirage, Action, Spectacle, Brooklyn, NY