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Cheyenne Tan (陈家盈) is a documentary producer whose work spans multiple Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning projects. Cheyenne served as an associate producer on Turning Point: The Vietnam War (Luminant Media/Netflix), which garnered five News & Documentary Emmy nominations and won the Emmy for Outstanding Research, specifically recognizing her work. She co-produced St. Louis Superman (MTV Documentary Films), nominated for the 92nd Academy Awards for Best Documentary Short and winner of the Critics’ Choice Award, and I Am Ready, Warden (MTV Documentary Films), nominated for the 97th Academy Awards in the same category.
Most recently, Cheyenne was a co-producer on Netflix & Luminant Media’s The American Experiment. She also co-produced Through Our Eyes: Shelter (Sesame Workshop/HBO Max), which received a nomination for a News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Documentary, a Humanitas Prize, and an NAACP Image Award. She was a fellow in the Netflix and Blackhouse Foundation Nonfiction Producing Fellowship in 2024-2025, where she became Blackhouse Foundation’s historic first non-Black fellow. Cheyenne was an archival producer on Amazon MGM Studios’ feature documentary, Meal Ticket. She is currently working on her directorial debut, Becoming My Mother, and producing and directing her first magazine editorial photoshoot.
Her additional credits include archival producing on directors Coodie & Chike’s Kendall’s Cross, producing work on Netflix’s The Romantics, and the documentary short Unskippable, starring Theo Germaine, created in partnership with the United Nations, Google, and Tribeca Studios. Her projects have screened at festivals including Tribeca Film Festival, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, and DOC NYC, and have been distributed across platforms such as Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon MGM Studios, and Paramount+.
In 2022, Cheyenne was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list, one of only eight Malaysians on the list that year. She is based in Los Angeles and is the writer behind the Hot Sheets Substack.
