Leslie Tai is a Chinese-American filmmaker based in the Bay Area in California. She has used her fluency in her two cultures as access to make documentaries that illuminate the spaces where they intersect. After graduating from UCLA, she made and exhibited her work in the New Independent Chinese Documentary Movement, as a student of Wu Wenguang, one of China’s leading radical filmmakers. Works like her short film The Private Life of Fenfen, a multi-layered representation of a young Chinese migrant worker’s video diaries, give a unique perspective into culture otherwise inaccessible to those on the outside.