Arthur Dong was born on October 30,1953 and is an American filmmaker and author whose work centers on Asia America and anti-gay prejudice.
11 Facts About Arthur Dong
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Arthur Dong was born on October 30,1953, in San Francisco, California.
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Arthur Dong graduated from Galileo High School in June 1971.
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Arthur Dong received his BA in film from San Francisco State University and holds a Directing Fellow Certificate from the American Film Institute Center for Advanced Film Studies.
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Arthur Dong is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences where he served on the Board of Governors from 2002 to 2006.
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In 1982, Arthur Dong founded DeepFocus Productions, Inc, where he continues to serve as producer, director, writer, and distributor.
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Arthur Dong received a nomination for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1984 for Sewing Woman, a film about his mother's immigration from China to America; a Peabody Award in 1995 for Coming Out Under Fire, which documented the US military's WW2 policy on gays in the military; and two Sundance Film Festival Awards for his profile of convicted murderers who killed gay men, Licensed to Kill.
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For television, Arthur Dong was an associate producer for KGO-TV in San Francisco from 1981 to 1982 and a producer at KCET in Los Angeles from 1991 to 1992.
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Career retrospectives of Arthur Dong's films have been presented at the Hawaii International Film Festival, the Human Rights International Film Festival in Warsaw Poland, the Walker Art Center, and in Taiwan: the Golden Horse Film Festival and the CNEX Documentary Film Festival.
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Arthur Dong has taught documentary film at Sundance's Documentary Workshops in Beijing, the Sundance Music and Sound Design Labs at Skywalker, UC Santa Barbara, Emory University, University of Texas, University of Hawai'i, and the CNEX Chinese Doc Academy in Taipei.
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Arthur Dong served as Distinguished Professor in Film at Loyola Marymount University where he designed MFA and certificate documentary programs.