Empowering the World's Documentarians

Beimeng Fu

(She/her)

Senior Producer, Sixth Tone

Ciudad de México, CDMX MX

Available for Full Time

Available for Freelance

Open To Mentoring

About

Beimeng Fu is a video journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Shanghai, China. Her work has been published by various international/Chinese news outlets, and awarded/nominated by the SOPA Awards, ONA, and The News & Doc EMMY. She was China Reporter for BuzzFeed News (New York), stringer producer for ABC News (Beijing), and Visual Media lecturer for the Bolton program at Communication University of Zhejiang. Beimeng holds a M.A. from Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. With Yan Cong and Charlotte Ye Ming, Beimeng co-publishes Far & Near, a newsletter featuring visual storytelling from China.

Featured Work

Let’s Have a Picnic Downstairs

What will a doctor, a therapist, a group-buy coordinator, a young idealist, a writer, and a journalist do when they find out they are neighbors in a lockdown? They set out to make a documentary. This short video essay is about an impossible relationship formed in a once-in-a-lifetime setting. By making it, a group of young neighbors in Shanghai remember their lost spring.

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‘Please, Find My Husband’

On July 20, floodwaters from torrential rainfall rushed into the subway carriages of Line 5 in Zhengzhou, central China, killing 14 people — two of whom were initially reported missing. Later, the State Council, China's cabinet, announced it would conduct an investigation into possible negligence in the city's disaster response. It has been an entire month since the tragedy. This video documents the frustrating and heartbreaking days spent by the wife of a victim as she waits outside the train station closest to the flooding for any sign of hope that her husband might still be alive.

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The Rise and Fall of Shanghai’s Cabaret Culture

In the 1920s and ’30s, Shanghai was known as a city of sin: a “Paris of the East” famous for its rich nightlife.

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A Day in a Shanghai Park

In this short three-part documentary, Sixth Tone captures the daily rhythm of life in Shanghai’s parks through three stories: a deaf community gathering every Wednesday morning at Lu Xun Park; young office workers who come to feed the stray cats in Jing’an Park during their lunch breaks; and an art professor who reads out romantic poetry at People’s Park, his local “marriage market,” on weekend afternoons.

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