LONI DING

2003 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival
LONI DING

LONI DING, DFA. Veteran producer for several decades of national public television programs. Faculty member U.C. Berkeley, Asian/American and Comparative Ethnic Studies. Teaches media analysis and hands-on video production

NATIONAL TELEVISION PROGRAMS

Loni's work has been broadcast on four continents. Her 16 national public television programs to date include: 600 Millennia: China's History Unearthed, Bean Sprouts, Cantata de Santa Maria de Iquique, Willie Lobo, Manchild, Nisei Soldier: Standard Bearer for an Exiled People The Color of Honor: The Japanese American Soldier in WWII.

AWARDS

4 EMMY (Regional) Awards, Media Alliance Award, National Japanese American Citizen's League Legislative Award, Steven Tatsukawa Memorial Fund Award, National Education Association Human and Civil Rights Award National Asian American Telecommunications Association 20th Anniversary Award.
Rockefeller Intercultural Fellowship, John A. Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship, Corporation for Public Broadcasting Senior Producer's Fellowship, American Film Institute Women Director's Fellowship, US/Japan Fellowship,
State University of New York, Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, 2002

TEACHING

U.C. Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Department, originated courses on media analysis and hands-on production (1980 to present). Has taught sociology at U.C. Berkeley( 1958-1967), and art history at San Francisco Art Institute (1963).
Visiting Faculty member : Cornell University (Asian American Studies and Theater Depts), Syracuse University (Communications Dept.), University of Colorado (Art Dept), and Mills College (Sociology).
Provost lecturer, State University NY 2000.
Appointed 'Distinguished Visiting Professor' U.C. Santa Cruz, 1998. 'Distinguished Visitor' New School University N.Y., 1999.

EDUCATIONAL resources and TEACHING materials can be found on two websites authored by Loni Ding : SEE www.cetel.org and www.pbs.org/ancestorsintheamericas

Loni's seminar 'Filmmaker Strategies and Techniques' will feature her works : 'Ancestors in the Americas' (Coolies, Sailors, Settlers and Chinese in the Frontier West), 'Island of Secret Memories', 'Bean Sprouts' and 'With Silk Wings'.

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