Cheyenne Tan

Cheyenne Tan is a two-time Academy Award-nominated and once Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. She produced “St. Louis Superman”, nominated for the 92nd Academy Awards in the Documentary Short category, and “I Am Ready, Warden”, nominated for the 97th Academy Awards in the same category. Both films were also nominated for the Critics Choice Award in 2020 and 2024 respectively, in which “St. Louis Superman” won for Best Short Documentary. She was also a producer on a documentary short for Sesame Workshop and Max called “Through Our Eyes: Shelter” which was nominated for the 2022 News & Documentary Emmy Award in the Outstanding Short Documentary category, a Humanitas Prize, and an NAACP Image Award.

Cheyenne was most recently on the producing team of the third season of Luminant Media and Netflix’s award-winning documentary series, “Turning Point”, this season covering the Vietnam War. Before that, she was archival producer on Coodie & Chike’s latest documentary feature and a producer on Netflix’s docuseries, “The Romantics.” She produced an ad campaign and documentary short, “Unskippable” starring Theo Germaine for The United Nations in association with Google and Tribeca Studios.

In 2022, Cheyenne was listed as one of Forbes Asia’s 30 Under 30, among the 8 Malaysians on the 300-long list. Cheyenne is currently based in Los Angeles, California.

To me, making an impact means creating work that lingers — stories that move people to see themselves and others with deeper empathy and awareness. It’s about using storytelling to bridge divides, spark conversations, and humanize complex issues in ways that inspire reflection or change. Even if the shift is small, impact is when a story helps someone feel seen or think differently about the world.