Member Spotlight: Carleen 'Ling' Hsu
CARLEEN ‘LING’ HSU
Ann Arbor
Dept. of Film, Television and Media
Lecturer IV
What is your area of specialty?
I teach both fiction and non-fiction film production, but I am a documentary filmmaker and editor by trade.
Here are links to three films I've produced and edited:
What are you proud of as a lecturer?
I'm fairly new to teaching, but I'm very proud that I've been able to #1 figure out how to teach without much mentorship, #2 engage students and inspire them to make work that makes a difference in the lives of others, and #3 I'm most proud when I get cards at the end of the year thanking me for a great education.
What might others not know about you?
I've been to the North Pole via Thule Air Base in Greenland!! It was frigid and I made friends with a white arctic fox. I've also filmed all over the world....including crucifixions in the Philippines and with the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala.
What is something that you are proud of outside your role as a lecturer?
I am still a working filmmaker in spite of all my teaching and service. I have two George Foster Peabody Awards, which honors media makers whose work reflects important social issues of our time. Most recently, a film I produced and edited, American Exile, won the Ruben Salazar Journalism Award. Salazar, for which the award, is named was a civil rights activist and journalist who was killed by a sheriff as he was reporting on the anti-Vietnam War Chicano Moratorium March in 1970. I'm proud, but also honored to be making films that promote positive social change.