Winnie Cheung

Winnie CHEUNG (USA) is a native New York filmmaker at the cross-section of documentary and horror. She mixes fictionalised tales with half-truths for unsettling cinematic experiences. In 2019, Winnie’s morbid animated short Albatross Soup premiered at Sundance and won Vimeo Animation of the Year and Short of the Week’s Short of the Year. In 2021, Winnie produced, sound designed and edited Kier-La Janisse’s epic feature documentary on the history folk horror Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, which went on to win SXSW’s Midnighters Audience Award and Best Documentary at Fantasia. Residency is her feature film debut, and was selected for IFFR 2023.