Elaine Wong is an award-winning writer, director, and producer who has received her MFA in film production at University of Southern California. Before attending film school, she was a journalist in San Francisco. After deciding that she wanted to pursue filmmaking as a career, she started working at Janet Yang Productions on developing the animated feature Over the Moon and at Black Valley Films with Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy on the documentary feature The Food Evolution.
Her web series Three Chen Sisters had earned her awards at London Short Series Festival and various nominations at the Asia Web Awards. Her film Where Dreams Rest got her best director award at Five Continents International Film Festival and Indie ShortFest, and has been officially selected at over 20 film festivals worldwide, including Sundance Film Festival: Hong Kong, and has earned her a sound fellowship with Dolby Atmos. Her works can be found on platforms such as Omeleto, Viddsee, Roku TV, and Twisted Mirror TV.
She recently served as a Cantonese translator and dialect coach for Netflix show Brothers Sun. She also served as the Director of Business Development for Blintn, a B2B content database that connects users with IPs such as novels or webcomics, and trending content such as films and series for format and license. She previously worked at Sun Entertainment Culture Limited Los Angeles, which co-produced Hulu’s Palm Springs, and Wavelets Entertainment. She is currently a lead director for First Lecture, a platform that showcases documentary series featuring top renowned professors and Nobel Prize laureates, who share their personal journeys in order to inspire others.
Elaine is also currently developing her debut feature film, Jia, which is about a young Asian American couple which faces marital strife as their new immigrant father is seduced into the perilous world of marijuana farming in the Mid-West. It is executive produced by Hong Kong producer Saville Chan (A Light Never Goes Out). JIA is a second-rounder for Sundance Development Lab, a Finalist of Stage 32 Feature Screenwriting Fellowship Competition, a semifinalist of Final Draft - Big Break 2023, and currently ranked top 2% on Coverfly.