Sarawakian filmmaker Cheyenne Tan wins first Emmy award for Netflix documentary

A screenshot from Tan’s Instagram story on her Emmy win. Source: itscheyennetan/Instagram

By DayakDaily Team

KUCHING, May 30: Sarawakian filmmaker Cheyenne Tan has made the State proud with her first Emmy win for her role as part of the team behind Netflix’s ‘Turning Point: The Vietnam War’ in the ‘Outstanding Research: Documentary’ category.

Taking to a post on her Instagram Story, Tan expressed her happiness over the achievement, despite not being able to attend the 47th News and Documentary Emmy Awards.

“Missed being at my first Emmy win, but so honoured to have been a part of this incredible team!” she said in her Instagram story.

Before this achievement, Kuching-born Tan was a two-time Academy Award-nominated and once Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker.

Among the words she has co-produced are ‘St Louis Superman’, nominated for the 92nd Academy Awards in the Documentary Short category, and ‘I Am Ready, Warden’, nominated for the 97th Academy Awards in the same category.

Both films were also nominated for the Critics’ Choice Award in 2020 and 2024, respectively, for Best Short Documentary, with ‘St Louis Superman’ winning.

She was also a co-producer on a documentary short for Sesame Workshop and HBO Max called ‘Through Our Eyes: Shelter’, which was nominated for the 2022 News & Documentary Emmy Award in the Outstanding Short Documentary category, a Humanitas Prize, and an NAACP Image Award.

In 2022, she was listed on the ‘Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia’ list, among the eight Malaysians on the 300-long list.

She is now residing in Los Angeles, California. — DayakDaily