Elaine Wong is an award-winning writer, director, and producer who has received her MFA in film production at University of Southern California. She is the chief director for First Lecture, a platform that showcases documentary series featuring top renowned professors and Nobel Prize laureates, who share their personal journeys in order to inspire others. The platform has garnered around 40K followers on Rednote within a month, and has since formed a strategic partnership with Bilibili.
Elaine began her film career working at Janet Yang Productions on developing the animated feature Over the Moon and at Black Valley Films with Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy on the documentary feature The Food Evolution.
Her films Where Dreams Rest and 52Hz have been officially selected at over 30 film festivals worldwide, including Sundance Film Festival: Hong Kong. Her works were distributed on platforms such as AMC+, Omeleto, Viddsee, Kanopy, Roku TV, and Giloo.
Elaine’s other credits include Netflix’s Brothers Sun and FX’s The Old Man as a dialect coach. Prior to her film and television career, Elaine was a senior reporter at Singtao Daily in San Francisco. During her tenure there, she had spearheaded the launching of SingTao TV. Since its inception, SingTao TV has now amassed 260K subscribers on Youtube.
Elaine is developing her debut feature film, Jia, which is about a young Asian American couple which faces marital strife as their new immigrant father is seduced into the perilous world of marijuana farming in the Mid-West. It is executive produced by Hong Kong producer Saville Chan (A Light Never Goes Out). JIA is a second-rounder for Sundance Development Lab, a Finalist of Stage 32 Feature Screenwriting Fellowship Competition, a semifinalist of Final Draft - Big Break 2023, and currently ranked top 2% on Coverfly.