This shy Angelino grew up in the outskirts of Chinatown, Echo Park. As
a child, Huy Chheng knew she wanted to pursue arts, which developed
into a passion for filmmaking after taking her first course at the
University of California, Los Angeles. Since then, filmmaking and
finding funding for her movies have been Huy's ongoing mission.
Besides nurturing her filmmaking career, Huy Chheng also does
event-planning, community organizing, youth mentoring, and teaching.
Huy has combined her storytelling skills and her work, teaching middle
school and college students about filmmaking.
Huy Chheng completed her Master's Degree in Film Studies at University
of California, Los Angeles in 2006. She has also directed several
shorts, documentaries, and feature films that has screen at several
film festivals.
Her first feature film, Sweet and Sour, a coming of age drama about
three best-friends of Los Angeles' Chinatown, who drift apart as they
diverge their paths into adulthood, tearing them apart and bringing
them back together. The film was among the selected few to be screened
by the China Institute in the summer of 2003. In addition to the
screening, Huy was also offered to study abroad at the China Film
Institute. A wonderful offer but she had to decline and opted for the
UCLA Graduate Program.
Currently, Huy is wrapping up her second feature, Dead Trees, a
psychological thriller. She is soon set to direct a feature documentary
project; a short action film, Angel; and co-write, co-produce, and
direct a feature narrative entitled, A Pair of Doves.
