Xinyi Qin

Xinyi Qin 覃芯怡 (she/her) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and photographer from Shanghai, China. She is currently based in the United States and China. With a background in both sociology and documentary production, she is passionate to explore topics around Asian Americans, dual identities, code switching, first-generation Chinese American social dilemmas. Her works tell human stories via non-fictional narrative and documentary photography, shedding lights on available lives, unique human experiences.

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Xinyi has recently won the Cayuga Film Festival Long Documentary Award of Distinction. She has also won FIRST PRIZE for best photography in 2023 New York Press Association, and Pinnacle College Media Awards Best Feature Photo Second Place.

In 2022, Xinyi Qin moved from China to the United States for college and to continue her passion in non-fiction production. She has a wide range of interests and skills in the media/film industry, including photography, film production, cinematography, documentary production, editing, journalism. Now, Xinyi is a junior double majoring in Documentary Production and Sociology at Ithaca College, upstate New York.

In her recent documentary project, she is working with two Chinese dance groups from Cornell University to explore how international Chinese and Chinese Americans connect with their heritage through dance.

In her recent photography project, she documented the stories behind different mediums of artists. Through recording & editing the interview audio and photographing action/portrait shots, she intends to explore different ways of living as an artist.

In her recent editing project, she edited a climbing documentary highlighting the use of social media in the climbing industry in Seoul, South Korea. Xinyi and her team filmed this documentary in Seoul, South Korea in the summer of 2023. Xinyi recently directed and edited a documentary, "First Name Basis", which has won the Cayuga Film Festival Award of Distinction and was selected in 2024 Trenton Film Festival Regional Documentary. Xinyi and her team followed two students who fell through the cracks of traditional education and learned to become proactive community members through alternative education.

Please feel free to contact Xinyi Qin if you are interested in collaboration, internships, freelance photography/video production work, or just simply connect with her:)