American documentary director and scholar. Representative works include Who Killed Vincent Chin, among others. Her works have been selected for the Sundance Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival on multiple occasions. She received a nomination for Best Documentary Feature at the 61st Academy Awards in 1989 and a nomination for the Grand Jury Prize at the 5th Sundance International Film Festival for directing the documentary Who Killed Vincent Chin; her co-directed work The Best Hotel on Skid Row was nominated for the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 43rd Cannes International Film Festival in 1990.