Jessie Dong

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Independent filmmaker and sociologist

New York, NY US

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I am receiving my PhD in Sociology on the performative power of cinema -- and hope to extend those findings to my own filmmaking practice.

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Jessie Dong is an independent documentary filmmaker and sociologist. As a sociologist, she creates documentaries on marginalized underground communities that combat reductive understandings and extend compassion. Her style and ethos could be described as: offbeat, warm, authentic, and unabashed. She is currently a PhD student in Sociology at Yale University and Junior Fellow at the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology.

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Make it Personal (Sizzle Reel)

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