Cheyenne Tan is a filmmaker whose film she co-produced, St. Louis Superman, has been nominated for the 92nd Academy Awards in the Documentary Short Subject category. It won a Critics’ Choice Award for Best Short Documentary and was named one of the International Documentary Association’s Documentaries Of The Decade. Cheyenne was listed on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Asia - Class of 2022 in the Media, Marketing & Advertising category.
In 2020, she co-produced another documentary short, Shelter about the Los Angeles housing crisis seen from children’s perspectives. Shelter premiered on HBO Max in the summer of 2021 which is now an NAACP Award-nominated and a DGA Award-winning film. Cheyenne is also part of the producing team behind an upcoming docuseries about the history of Bollywood, set to premiere in 2022.
Cheyenne also co-produced an ad campaign and documentary short, Unskippable for The United Nations in association with Google and Tribeca Studios starring Theo Germaine. They were screened at the Cannes Lion, Advertising Week 2020 and the 2020 United Nations General Assembly.
Cheyenne is a Creative Executive at Academy-Award Nominated director, Smriti Mundhra’s production company, Meralta Films. She is based in Los Angeles but Kuching, Borneo will always be home.