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Nanfu Wang, who co-directed the Oscar-shortlisted doc “One Child Nation” exploring China’s one-child policy, writes about how state media has scrubbed mentions of her film.
Nanfu Wang is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker based in New York. Wang’s feature debut, Hooligan Sparrow (2016 Sundance Film Festival), was shortlisted for the 2017 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It also won a Film Independent Spirit Award, an IDA Documentary Award, a Peabody Award, a Cinema Eye Honors Award, and the George Polk Award. Her second feature documentary, I Am Another You, won two special jury awards. Her latest documentary, One Child Nation, has been shortlisted for the 2020 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.