Our Team
Lulu Men
(director/producer/editor) a New York-based artist and filmmaker, originally from China and Singapore. With a foundation in fine arts, she holds an MFA in Film from the School of Visual Arts and an MA in Media Management from The New School. Her debut feature documentary, VOICES OF DEOLI, recently world premiered at LAAPFF. She also contributed as one of the producers on the Academy Award-winning AMERICAN FACTORY. Her work has been showcased at international film festivals and educational institutions. A proud member of BGDM, A-Doc, and Film Fatales, she is deeply committed to storytelling that drives change.
Joy Ma
Hemal Trivedi
(Consultant Editor) is an award-winning filmmaker and editor with over 18 years of experience. Her work has earned an Oscar, three Emmys, a Peabody, and over 30 major awards and honors. Her films have screened at top festivals like Sundance, Tribeca, and IDFA, and aired on platforms including Netflix, HBO, and PBS.
(executive producer/archival consultant) grew up in India and has lived in Kolkata and New Delhi. She attended Lady Shri Ram College and graduate school at the New School. She recently published the book The Deoliwallahs: The True Story of the 1962 Chinese-Indian Incarceration. Joy was one of a handful of children born in the Deoli internment camp in Rajasthan. Her connection to the community in the US and Canada taps into the rich narratives of the group.
Oxana Onipko
Yeeva Cheng
(Impact Producer) is passionate about grassroots education and community-centered storytelling. The daughter of one of the survivors featured in Voices of Deoli, she has been actively involved with the internment camp survivor community (AIDCI) since 2011, through advocacy, community archiving, and healing-centered conversations. With an academic background in Anthropology (Davidson College ’15) and International Education Policy (Harvard Graduate School of Education ’21), she is deeply invested in the ways media, emotion, and dialogue shape how people learn, heal, and grow.
(cinematographer) is a documentary cinematographer based in New York City. She is originally from Ukraine. Her latest project “Kostya” screened at the 2019 DOC NYC film festival where it received an award of excellence from Kanopy. Oxana comes from a strong journalism and documentary photography background. She has a wide variety of experience working with immigrants and war zone stories.
Masami Kiyono
(illustration artist) is a storyteller and illustrator originally from the California Bay Area. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City where she was the recipient of the SVA Alumni Sequential Art Award in 2016. As a biracial Japanese artist, Masami is inspired by cultural folk tales and what it means to retain an Asian identity after four generations in the United States.
Kim Su
(assistant editor) is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. They graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. Their work often includes exploring the intersectionality of identities, queer communities, and the lives of Asian Americans and Asian adoptees. Their most recent film, “These Memories Are Not My Own” explores their confrontation with the implications of their own adoption and the diaspora of Chinese-American life. It was featured at the 2022 Woodstock Film festival.
Hsi Cheng
(associate producer) Hsi Cheng is an award-winning filmmaker in both fiction and nonfiction, she’s originally from Taiwan and based in New York City. Her work often delves into themes of identity, community, and resilience, reflecting her commitment to amplifying underrepresented voices. Her short documentary FIND ME won the 2024 DOC NYC U competition and was selected for multiple film festivals. Her horror-romantic drama I HEARD A FLY BUZZ won first place at the Annual School of Visual Arts Writing Contest and was published in Match Factory Magazine in 2023. Hsi is currently working on extending her short Find Me into a feature length documentary.