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Academic Background

Award-winning filmmaker Vincent Du has produced more than twenty documentaries for international broadcasters and organisations including Al Jazeera, BBC, NHK, Channel NewsAsia, World Health Organization, Tencent, iQiyi, and China Central Television.

His recent works include China’s Pet ‘Economy’, which was a finalist for the Golden Nymph Awards in the News and Documentaries Category at the 2022 Monte-Carlo Television Festival. It also won the Gold Award at the 2022 World Media Festival. His A Day in Wuhan won in the General Documentary category at The Telly Awards 2021, and aired on Al Jazeera Arabic. His feature-length documentary Smog Town (NFF+IBF scheme, IDFA Bertha Fund), premiered in 2019 as part of the First Appearance Competition during the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the world’s largest documentary film festival. It won best documentary awards at both the Millenium Documentary Film Festival in Belgium and DokuFest in Kosovo. His investigative documentary, Smuggling for Survival, aired on Channel NewsAsia and Al Jazeera English; and won Best Current Affairs Programme or Series at the Asian Academy Creative Awards in 2019. In the same year, his short film Fighting Against Air Pollution won Best Short Documentary at the China Academy Awards for Documentary Films, the country’s top awards for the genre.

As a producer, Vincent’s projects have received support from several prestigious film funds around the world, including the Sundance Documentary Fund, the IDFA Bertha Fund, the Netherlands Film Fund and the DMZ Documentary Fund.

Vincent is regularly invited to mentor young filmmakers at institutions and events such as the University of Hong Kong, One World Media's Global Short Docs Forum, Tokyo Docs, and the Korea Radio Promotion Association. He has served as the programmer of the Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival in 2021 and 2024. He is also a member of the jury for the documentary category of the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards 2024. 

Education/Academic qualification

Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCertHE), University of Sussex

Sept 2023Mar 2025

Award Date: 3 Mar 2025

PhD in Film Studies, University of Westminster

Sept 2021Sept 2025

Master of Arts, Screen Documentary, Goldsmiths, University of London

Sept 2011Sept 2012

MA Journalism, University of Hong Kong

Sept 2010Sept 2011

External positions

Jury member, FIRST International Film Festival, China

1 Mar 202625 Jul 2026

External Examiner, MA Visual Media, University of Bolton

1 Jan 202631 Dec 2029

Jury Member, Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards

1 May 20241 Aug 2024

Programmer, Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival

1 Mar 202431 Jul 2024

Mentor, Global Short Doc Forum , One World Media

1 Feb 202331 Mar 2023

Mentor, Tokyo Docs

1 Nov 202030 Nov 2020

Mentor, 3rd Global Pitching Academy, Korea Radio Promotion Association

1 Oct 202031 Oct 2020