About the Project
Project: We Are Volcanoes
Sharon Yeung Bio
Sharon is a Hong Kong director-producer who tells stories across short, feature and immersive formats. Her immersive documentaries, MADE, a VR piece that follows an iPhone factory worker in China and Create Your Own, an interactive piece about young people’s search for meaning has won multiple digital awards like W3 and DFA Awards. In 2017, she founded Singing Cicadas; a female-run production company turned impact agency that creates non fiction stories and campaigns around social justice issues in Asia. She received her BA at the University of Southern California. Her projects have been supported by Chicken & Egg, Rooftop Filmmakers Fund, Doc Society and she is a fellow at IDFA DocLab and DocNYCxVC. Very occasionally when she is not making films, she makes storytelling board games. Occasionally, she makes storytelling board games when she is not making films. Sharon is currently working on a feature documentary titled We Are Volcanoes.