li-shin yu

Li-Shin Yu is a director and film editor at Steeplechase Films. She has received many accolades for her work and collaboration with director Ric Burns, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Editing for the epic documentary series, New York (1999).

Her work includes co-directing the PBS documentary, The Chinese Exclusion Act (2017). The film highlights racism and discriminatory immigration policies and laws affecting Chinese immigrants beginning in the late 1800’s. The documentary illustrates the strength, resilience, and contributions of Chinese Americans as well as the struggle for equal rights under the U.S. Constitution.

Yu immigrated to the United States from Taiwan at a young age. After school in California, she moved to New York and took filmmaking classes at Columbia University.

Yu began her career collaborating with other New York independent filmmakers including Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Sara Driver and Peter Wang and more recently with documentarians Christine Choy, Bill Moyers, Thomas Lennon, and Stanley Nelson.