Michelle Chang
EDITOR

Feature Documentary Films:

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American Coup: Wilmington, 1898 (2024) - Editor

• Historical doc about the only successful coup on American soil, where a white supremacy campaign in North Carolina culminated in a stolen election, a massacre and an end to the promise of democracy in the South. For American Experience on PBS.

 

Between Goodbyes (2023) - Editor

• Story of a queer, Korean adoptee from the Netherlands, and the fraught experience of being in reunion with her original family in Seoul, South Korea over the course of many years.

 

Jeanette Lee Vs. (2022) - Editor

• Chronicles the life & career of "The Black Widow," a Korean American billiards champion who battles chronic pain, injury and illness to become one of the most iconic players ever. For ESPN 30 for 30.

 

Unconditional (2021) - Editor

• 3 Families confront life-changing diagnoses that push both caregivers and care recipients to come to terms with their new identities. Featuring MSNBC Anchor Richard Lui.

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Harbor From the Holocaust (2020) - Editor

• Jewish refugees tell the harrowing story of how they escaped the Holocaust by finding refuge in an unexpected place: Shanghai, China. For PBS National Broadcast 

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When Claude Got Shot (2020) - Editor

• A man who survives being shot in an attempted car jacking must deal with the fallout on his life, as well as his conflicted feelings about the prosecution of the perpetrator, who is only 15. 

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Down a Dark Stairwell (2020) - Editor

• Dives into the competing ideas of justice around the fatal police shooting of Akai Gurley by Chinese American cop Peter Liang in a dark, housing project stairwell in Brooklyn.

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Like Any Other Kid (2017) - Editor

• Follows three facilities for incarcerated youth which operate in a totally therapeutic model. Workers build relationships with the kids and push them to understand their behaviors

 

9-MAN (2014) - Editor

• Tells the story of a street sport started by U.S. Chinatown bachelors in the 1930s and explores how attempts to keep the sport “Chinese” unpack deeper questions about cultural identity and belonging

 

American Promise  (2013) - Additional Editor

• Film covers 13 year journey of 2 African American families in Brooklyn who send their sons to an elite private school.  Additional Editor for POV Broadcast version, Emmy nomination

 

She's Beautiful When She's Angry  (2013) - Additional Editor  

• The story of the early years Women's Liberation Movement as told by the organizers on the ground

 

Black and Cuba (2012) - Editor  

• Centers around a group of black graduate students from Yale University who, feeling alienated in an elitist community, travel to Cuba to find their revolutionary selves

 

(A)SEXUAL (2011) - Editor

• Documentary about asexuality as a sexual orientation, identity and movement

 

Pushing the Elephant  (2010) -  Associate Editor  

• Congolese genocide survivor Rose Mapendo reunites with a daughter separated from her 13 years ago

 

Camp Victory, Afghanistan (2009) - Co-Editor  

• American National Guardsmen attempt to train the Afghan National Army and form unexpected relationships 

 

Sundance Documentary Lab - Editing Fellow (2009) for "Camp Victory, Afghanistan"

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