Christine Choy AKA Chai Ming Huie

Director and Professor, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Choy was trained as an architect; she received her Master of Science degree from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planing, and Preservation, Columbia University and Directing Certificate from the American Film Institute. Choy is a full professor at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Served as a Chair of Graduate Film/TV Program from 1994 to 1997, again from 2002 to 2005.  She also taught at Yale and Cornell Universities as well as SUNY Buffalo.  She was a visiting scholar at Evergreen State College, Oslo and Volda film Institute, Norway.

Choy has made more than eighty films, received over sixty international awards including an Oscar Nomination for Best Documentary, she also was a recipient of numerous fellowships among them, John Simon Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Asian Cultural Council , Fulbright Senior Research and Best Cinematography Award from the Sundance International Film Festival. In addition, her 2022 film The Exiles, won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Her accomplishments were recognized by Hot Docs film festival when they gave her a lifetime achievement award in 2023.

Choy is an educator and a creative artist; a pioneer Asian American film maker ,she has produced/directed/photographed more than eighty works in various forms. Her works have been broadcasted on HBO, PBS, Sundance Channel, Lifetime, NHK, and many other stations.  Her works have also been featured at Berlin, Cann, Toronto, Chicago, Montreal, Hong Kong, Pusan International festivals as well as the Asian American International Festival in S. F., L.A and New York.

She is the founding director of School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, a member of Project Vetting committee of the Film Development Fund, Hong Kong and an International Trustee Member of the Asia Society from 1995 to 2002.

Today, she continues to teach Undergraduate Film at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, where she has been for 35 years.