Loni Ding Filmography

NATIONAL TELEVISION CREDITS

2001 PBS NAT'L PRIME TIME SPECIAL	ANCESTORS IN THE AMERICAS Part I - Coolies, Sailors, Settlers: Voyage to the New World Part II - Chinese in the Frontier West: An American Story Producer, Director, Writer, and Editor The national prime-time PBS broadcasts of Ancestors Programs 1 and 2 in 2001 reached large audiences: • The two programs were seen by more than 6,000,000 viewers [Nielsen estimate of premiere broadcasts only], widely dispersed across the United States. The first round of showings saw 835 broadcasts with the PBS system of 330-plus televistion stations. • Millions more saw the shows when they were periodically re-broadcast by PBS stations and on cable. Response was particuarly strong in small cities in the American heartland. • After the television showings, there were broad distributions of Ancestors in the Americas programs to schools, universities and libraries.
Screened At:	• 15th and 19th Asian American International Film Festival, San Francisco • Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. • Museum of Chinese in the Americas, New York University • Wing Luke Museum and Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA • Asian Studies Center, Hong Kong University • Pacific Film Archive, UC Berkeley • Denver International Film Festival, Denver, CO • Asian CineVision, NY • 5th Chicago Asian American Film Festival • Museum of Modern Art, NY
Awards:	• Silver Apple, National Educational Film and Video Festival • Editors' Choice Part 1 and 2 1999, Booklist Publications, American Library Assoc.
1989 PBS PRIME TIME SPECIAL	THE COLOR OF HONOR 90-minute documentary on the experiences of Japanese American soldiers in WWII, including: 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Military Intelligence linguists, draft resisters and army protesters. Producer, Director, Writer, and Editor Premiered Smithsonian Institution, l988; Screened at Berlin and London International Film Festivals, 1988, and by American Film Institute at Kennedy Center, l989. Shown in both houses of U. S. Congress for Redress /Reparations legislation, l988;
Awards:	• CINE Golden Eagle, Washington, D.C.
1984 PBS PRIME TIME SPECIAL	NISEI SOLDIER: Standard Bearer for an Exiled People Half-hour documentary on Japanese Americans who fought in much-decorated WWII combat unit (442nd) in Europe, while their families were imprisoned in internment camps at home. Producer, Director, Writer, and Editor Shown in both houses of U.S. Congress for Redress / Reparations legislation, l987 & 1988.
Awards:	• Emmy Award, Northern California • Blue Ribbon, History, American Film Festival, New York • Gold Medal, New York International Film & Video Festival • Silver Plaque, Chicago International Film Festival • CINE Golden Eagle, Washington, D.C., • National Emmy nominee, News and Public Affairs, NY.
1983 PBS series	WITH SILK WINGS Four 30-minute programs on Asian American women at work. Produced in collaboration with Asian Women United. Producer, Director, Writer, and Editor On New Ground
Awards:	• National Award, American Women in Radio and Television, Montreal • Finalist, American Film Festival, NY • Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Film Festival Four Women
Awards:	• Finalist, American Film Festival
1980 PBS series	BEAN SPROUTS Five-part narrative series on Chinese American children and their friends, dealing with themes of personal identity, intercultural contacts and generational relations in the settings of school, family and community. Project Director, line producer, director, writer, editor
Awards:	• Finalist, American Film Festival • Two Emmy Awards, Northern California • Action for Children's Television, Boston Media Award • 30th Annual Broadcast Industry Conference, SF State University
1976 PBS	CANTATA DE SANTA MARIA DE IQUIQUE One-hour musical drama in Spanish with English subtitles about an historical Chilean labor struggle, performed to music and lyrics by Quilapayun. Produced in collaboration with Bay Area teatro groups and Argentine director Humberto Martinez. Staff Producer, Director
1975 PBS PRIME TIME SPECIAL	600 MILLENNIA: CHINA'S HISTORY UNEARTHED 90-minute documentary on the archaeological collection from the People's Republic of China, touring the U.S. A precedent-setting first cultural exchange between the U.S. and China, shortly after state-to-state relations were established. Producer, Director, Writer, Editor
1975 PBS	HOW WE GOT HERE: THE CHINESE Half-hour montage essay on Chinese in America, from early arrival to contemporary Chinatowns. Produced with Cantonese translation and radio simulcast. The story of five generations of Chinese immigrants to America, drawn primarily from the experiences of those living in San Francisco's Chinatown. Producer, Director, Writer, Editor
Awards:	• Emmy Award Finalist • Featured screening, National Convention, American Historical Association
1974 PBS	WILLI LOBO, MANCHILD One-hour musical drama on the ghetto homecoming of a black Vietnam War veteran, much changed by the war. (In collaboration with the Black Ensemble Theater, Oakland) Producer, Director for television
Awards:	• Local Origination Program Award, Corporation for Public Broadcasting • National Broadcast Media Award, San Francisco State University

OTHER CREDITS

1996	FROM MADERA, CALIFORNIA TO KAIPING, CHINA A true story about a group of 6th graders in the California Valley town of Madera, who rescued a 70 year-old Chinese burial ground from historical oblivion. Miraculously, the son of a one of the men buried in the cemetery is found living in Kaiping, China, and is presented with a photo of his long-lost father's hitherto unknown tombstone. The presentation takes place in the family house built with money the father had faithfully sent back from America. Writer, Producer, Director
1987-1990	ON LOCATION: TRAVELS TO CALIFORNIA'S PAST A four-part series of 20-minute mini-dramas on California history, with accompanying curriculum package. Sponsored by the California Historical Society and State of California Department of Education. Curriculum package produced in association with New Curriculum Designs: Lyn Reese and Mary Agnes Dougherty, PhD. Island of Secret Memories (drama) Examines the experiences of early Chinese American immigrants who were detained at the Angel Island immigrant Station in the San Francisco Bay from 1910 - 1940 through the eyes of young immigrant children on a tour of the now restored facility located in Angel Island State Park. Writer, Producer, Director, Editor
Awards:	• Wilbur Schramm Award, (Highest award, Nat'l competition, educational K-12) • Best of the West for Instructional TV program, Pacific Mountain Network • Gold Apple, National Educational Film & Video Festival, Social Sciences Sketches from the Capitol (drama) History of the old capitol building in Sacramento. Seen through the eyes of a 6th grader who visits the building with her class. A story showing the development of state government in California. Executive Producer California Recuerdo: A Memory of California (drama) California's Mexican ranchero period, 1822-48, is recalled when a young Hispanic girl visits her godfather in Old Town San Diego and hears the story through the imagined eyes of a Ranchero period woman giving voice to her journal. Writer, Producer, Director, Editor
Awards:	Silver Apple, National Educational Film & Video Festival Portraits in Gold: The California Gold Rush (drama) Filmed in the Mother Lode, young Jed and his mother travel from Boston to a California gold mining camp, where he comes to understand the hard life of Gold Rush pioneers, encounters Chinese immigrants and California Indians, and his genteel but resourceful mother learns to earn herself "an apron full of gold." Writer, Producer, Director, Editor
l970-77	Senior Producer/Director, KQED-TV (Public TV), SF, CA Produced and directed more than 250 half-hour programs for local broadcast, working in highly varied formats with a wide spectrum of San Francisco Bay Area groups. Co-founder and Executive Producer, KQED Open Studio Open Studio was a community access production unit and broadcast service which, in its seven years of existence, produced over 700 half-hour programs for daily local broadcast with some going on to national broadcast.
l969-70	SUT YUNG YING YEE (Practical English) 65-part TV series for English instruction of Chinese immigrants. Produced for KPIX-TV/SF, CBS affiliate station, in co-production with S.F. Chinese Media Committee. Includes 4 -volume companion home study booklets and audio cassettes. Project Director, Series Line Producer
Awards:	• Emmy Award, Northern California

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