About

Based in Brooklyn, Tiffany Jiang is a Chinese-American filmmaker who makes documentaries as a way to process their grief, trauma, identity struggles and many existential thoughts about memory as it relates to censorship, history, and truth. Their creative roots stem from an interest in sociology, interaction design, and photography. After receiving their Master’s degree from The New School in Documentary Media Studies, they joined the Development team full-time at Story Syndicate.

Prior to their career change, Tiffany created digital experiences as a product designer for media companies, like Vimeo and Hulu, following their graduation from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor’s in Communication Design and Human-Computer Interaction. Around 2018, Tiffany chose to uproot their life in Seattle to pursue a more meaningful career in documentary filmmaking after the sudden death of a friend paired with their first time watching Bing Liu’s feature, Minding the Gap.

While at The New School, they served as the Documentary Program Associate, co-produced the “Doc Talk” Q&A series, helped organize the annual Truth Be Told film festival and was given the Media Studies Student Service Award in ‘23. They directed, shot and edited their thesis film, Engraved, which went on to premiere at DOC NYC. More recently, Tiffany has made experimental documentaries utilizing found materials, whether it be home videos from Internet Archive or still images taken with Google Street View. Their style is influenced by Bing Liu, Miko Revereza, Sky Hopinka, Stan Brakhage, Theo Anthony, and John Wilson. 

They are a featured filmmaker in Microscope Gallery’s YES Emerging Artists Series, a Princess Grace Emerging Documentary Filmmaker nominee, National Board of Review Student Grant nominee, and scholarship fellow of NALIP’s Emerging Content Creators Initiative. Engraved was awarded Best Documentary at Lane Doc Fest and Flamingo Film Festival. Oh Say, Can You See? was given the jury prize at Winnipeg Underground Film Festival this year. Natural Disasters screened at Asian American International Film Festival this summer as part of the uniquely curated program, “Celluloid Synergy: Experimental Films From 1960s - Now”. Outside of film, Tiffany loves to dip into the world of comedy, perform improv with friends, and play DJ sets around the city. Their goals for the new year include learning how to drum (finally), making music with Ableton, shooting 16mm films with Bolex cameras, and manifesting the CAAM fellowship. 🤞

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Education

The New School, MA in Documentary Media Studies · Public Engagement Scholarship, Provost’s Merit Scholarship · Courses: Experimental Documentary, Poetics of Witnessing, Documentary History, Editing: Art & Practice, Intro to Cinematography, Documentary Thesis, Transcending Disciplines, The Cinematic Place

Carnegie Mellon University, B. Des in Communication Design & Human-Computer Interaction · University Honors, Dean’s List · Courses: Research Methods, Color & Communication, Design Futures, Portrait Photography, Interaction Design, AI, Automation & Society, Human-Robot Interaction, Acting for Non-Majors

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Honors

Featured Filmmaker, Best of Baby Teeth Film Festival Showcase 2024

Featured Filmmaker, Microscope Gallery’s Emerging Artists Series 2023

Media Studies Graduate Student Service Award, The New School 2023

Featured Filmmaker, The 3rd Thing Press: “Good Symptom” Anthology 2023

Writing Workshop Fellow, DAF Comedy x The Onion 2023

Nominee, National Board of Review Student Grant 2022

Nominee, Princess Grace Emerging Documentary Filmmaker 2022

Scholarship Fellow, NALIP Emerging Content Creators Initiative 2021

Featured Photographer, The International Center of Photography: #ICPConcerned 2021

Featured Photographer, Pioneer Works: 25 Things to Photograph 2021

Featured Filmmaker, POV Docs & Asian Mental Health Project 2021

Featured Photographer, Photographic Center Northwest: Chase the Light 2020

Featured Artist, Northwest Film Forum: Life Is But a Dream 2019