Arthur Dong (b. 1953)
Arthur Dong Meeting Room 305, San Francisco LGBT Center (1800 Market Street, San Francisco)
Arthur Dong was born and raised in San Francisco. He is a filmmaker, author and curator. Arthur revealed his filmmaking talent early in high school with his first film Public. It won first place at the State High School Film Festival. Arthur's works tell Asian American, LGBTQ, and minority stories that focus on resistance against social and cultural oppression. He received the first Oscar nomination for an Asian American documentary (Sewing Woman), and was the first to receive three awards at a Sundance Film Festival for his documentary entitled Licensed to Kill. Other notable awards include the George Foster Peabody Award and Taiwan's Golden Horse Award for best documentary (Hollywood Chinese).
(Portrait by Yan Jun Gu, SFSU 2013)