Director + Producer + Educator
About
Janet Chen Ma (she/her) is an award-winning film and multimedia director, producer and educator. Her work often explores people of color and LGBTQ+ experiences and multigenerational stories. Janet holds a M.F.A. in Film & Digital Media: Social Documentation from UCSC, specializing in documentary, fiction, hybrid film and multimedia making, and a B.A. from UCI in Film Studies, specializing in production and screenwriting. She has taught filmmaking at UCLA in EthnoCommunications. Janet was the founding manager and steering committee member of A-Doc (Asian American Documentary Network) and is a member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia and Video Consortium. Her latest short film, ASIAN BITCHES SPEAK, was honored with a Special Jury award for Documentary Short from the 40th VC Film Festival / Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2024 and a Best Director award for Short Film at the 31st QFilms / Long Beach LGBTQ Film Festival 2024.
