Carleen Ling-An Hsu

Grub
Producer, Writer, Director

This short personal documentary examines the underlying causes of the world’s impending food crisis by exploring a novel approach to food security – farming insects for human consumption. Currently in production.

For Neda
Co Producer

This feature length documentary for HBO and the BBC tells the story of Neda Agha-Soltan who was shot and killed in Tehran in 2009. Within hours footage of her dying moments – captured on cell phone – were uploaded to Facebook and YouTube for the world to witness.  Her image came to symbolize Iran’s Green movement and post election struggle.  For Neda interweaves the story of her life and death with the larger Iranian fight for democracy.

• George Foster Peabody Award, 2010
• Documentary of the Year Award, The Foreign Press Association, 2010
• The Clarion Award for Best Documentary, The Association of Women in Communications, 2010

The Tank Man
Co Producer

This 90-minute film for the primetimePBS series FRONTLINE and Channel 4 UK examines the erasure of historical memory in modern China.  On June 4, 1989 a lone protester stood against Chinese tanks at Tiananmen Square in a lonely act of defiance that stunned the world.  What became of him?  Seventeen years later, has China succeeded in erasing this event from its history?

Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She
Producer

The feature length documentary film for HBOand Channel 4 UK examines the diversity of human sexual and gender variance around the globe, with commentary by scientific experts and first-hand accounts of people who do not conform to a simple male/female binary.  The film promotes tolerance and an appreciation of diversity.

• GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation)Media Award -Outstanding Documentary, 2005

Flesh and the Devil
Producer

This 90-minute film for HBO and Channel 4 UK delves into sex – the most powerful biological drive – and the priesthood. By examining the sexual crisis at the heart of the modern Catholic Church, the film tries to make sense of the relationship between enforced celibacy, power, and sexual abuse.

A Question of Miracles
Producer

This 90-minute documentary for HBO explores the world of big money through the work of televangelists, Benny Hinn and Reinhardt Bonnke, who claim to heal the sick and cure the dying by channeling the will of God.  This film examines the psychology and neurology of their claims that they can heal the sick.

• Best Documentary, The International Festival of Cinema, Religion, and Society, 2001
• Silver Award, Hamburg Media World Festival, 2001

Christie’s Story
Producer

This 90-minute documentary film was produced for The Learning Channel and ITV UK.   Christie Martin, who is 24 and stands 5 feet tall, weighs over five hundred lbs. Without a radical bariatric operation to reduce her weight she will die.  Filmed over the course of three years, Christie sheds over 350 lbs and is forced to confront deep psychological issues from her childhood that were the roots of her obesity.

FAT
Co Producer

This hour-long film for primetime broadcast on the PBS series Frontline, The Canadian Broadcast Corporation, and presented as a 6-part series for ITV UK, explores the obesity epidemic across North America and Europe. Inundated by tens of thousands of food ads each year, influenced by an unattainable standard of beauty, while fighting primeval cravings – we are losing the war on fat.

• Best Documentary, The British Medical Association, 1998

Body Doubles
Co Producer

The 90-minute film for HBO, ITV UK, and The Canadian Broadcast Corporationexplores the strange and revealing world of twins.  From the macabre experiments of Nazi doctor, Josef Mengele, to current genetic research, the study of twins has both illuminated and darkened our understanding of ourselves.