Multimedia Journalist/Video Artist/Educator
Larry Ling-hsuan Tung is a freelance
journalist and independent documentary filmmaker in New York City. He is a
frequent contributor on immigrant communities to Gotham Gazette, an Online
Journalism Award-winning news site covering New York City. In addition, he
contributes video, radio and print pieces to media outlets in New York. He also
teaches video production and media courses at Kean University in Union, New
Jersey.
Prior to moving to the United
States, he was a reporter for the English-language Taiwan News in Taipei and
covered Taipei City Hall and the Taiwanese legislature from 1998 to 2000. He
was also a stringer during the 2000 presidential election in Taiwan for the
International Community Radio Taipei.
Tung’s documentary films have been
shown in many film festivals in North American and Europe. His film, Daughters
from China, won the
best documentary award in the 2005 Honolulu International Festival, and his
2009 Welcome to My Queer Bookstore, was a finalist in the short documentary category in the
CMJ Film Festival in New York.
Tung is a graduate of Ming Chuan
University in Taiwan, and holds a master of fine arts in television production
from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He is a recipient of
Vanderbilt University Media Fellowship in 2008, and NYC Campaign Coverage
Journalism Fellowship from the Center of New York City Affairs at the New
School in 2010.
