Vicky Du is a queer, Taiwanese-American filmmaker based in Berlin and New York. Her debut feature documentary Light of the Setting Sun (Full Frame and IDFA, 2024) examines the intergenerational trauma within her own Chinese-Taiwanese-American family. The film has received generous support from ITVS / PBS, Center for Asian American Media, Sundance Institute, Hot Docs Forum, Field of Vision, Chicken and Egg, Bay Area Video Coalition, Meerkat Media and Points North Institute. The film will broadcast on PBS's Independent Lens and South Korea's EBS in 2025. While making the film, Vicky wrote about Rea Tajiri’s History and Memory (1991), family, ghosts, and grief for Sentient.Art.Film.
Previously, Vicky directed and produced the Beijing episode of the nationally broadcast and Peabody award-winning series Art in the Twenty-First Century (PBS, 2020). The film follows five major contemporary artists based in Beijing, including Liu Xiaodong and Xu Bing. Vicky has also directed digital short films for Art21 that follow artists Rachel Rossin and Jordan Casteel in New York City.
Her first short film Gaysians (Frameline, 2016) screened at 35+ film festivals around the world, had a public television broadcast on KQED, and was distributed to 1000+ middle and high school LGBTQ student groups.
From 2017-2021, Vicky was a worker-owner of Meerkat Media, a filmmaking cooperative based in Brooklyn. And prior to that, she was the Associate Producer of Free Solo (Oscar Winner, 2019). As a freelancer, Vicky has directed, produced and / or edited digital and broadcast shorts for National Geographic, The New York Times, The History Channel and The New Yorker.
She has a BA in Biological Anthropology from Columbia University, and in a past life, studied wild monkeys in Kenya and Puerto Rico.