About 

Chung-Wei Huang is an award-winning filmmaker from a coastal town in southern Taiwan, now based in Baltimore. Her work spans narrative film and dance-for-camera, drawn to ordinary lives and the emotional weight carried within everyday gestures. Through intimate storytelling and carefully composed movement, she explores vulnerability, identity, and unspoken tension. Grounded in lived experience, her films find meaning in the spaces between people, revealing how private struggles are shaped by larger social forces.

Chung-Wei’s films have screened at major international festivals including the Cleveland International Film Festival, LA Shorts International Film Festival, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, The Female Eye Film Festival, and the Maryland Film Festival. Her short film Squeegee Boy, supported by the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, won the Audience Award at the New York International Children’s Film Festival. The PSA It Takes Courage, which she co-directed and edited, won a 66th Capital Emmy Award in 2024. In 2025, she was named a Baker Artist Award winner, recognizing her distinctive voice and sustained impact within the Baltimore arts community.

Chung-Wei holds an MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University, where she was awarded the Presidential Fellowship. She is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Media and Communication Studies Department at UMBC, where she teaches filmmaking, screenwriting, and media literacy. Drawing from her professional practice, she encourages students to tell honest, socially engaged stories while developing a rigorous understanding of media form and meaning.