FILMS

Love Intersections | CV
Co-Artistic Director

• Yellow Peril
• Chinatown x DTES
• Docs

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Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny (2019)

Yellow Peril: Queer Futures (2022)

Channeling the Elements; an encounter of time/space (2020)

The Haunting of Huli jing (2020)

Preserving Legacies: The Lim Sai Hor Kow Mock Association (2023)

Honouring our Grandmothers Healing Journey (2024)

Elements Unite (2024)

​6x6 "Finding" Series (2018)

Ep1 - Queer Origins

Ep3 - Queer Dance

Ep5 - Queer Disability Culture

Ep2 - Queer History

Ep4 - Queer Sports

Ep6 - Queer Families

Other Short Docs

Black Lives Matter - Vancouver (2016)

REGALIA: PRIDE IN TWO SPIRITS (2015)

Carla and Hayfa (2016)

AMAR: DEAF IS AN IDENTITY (2016)

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COMMUNITY MATTER(S)

• Powell Street Festival Cultural Workers Training Facilitator (2022-present)​
• HOT POT TALKS Co-producer/ co-host (2020-present)
• CURRENT: Feminist Electronic Art Symposium Co-producer (2019-present)
• F-O-R-M: Festival of Recorded Movement Artistic Committee (2019)
• Vines Art Festival Youth Program Mentor (2020)
• "TROUBLEMAKERS" LGBTQ2S Intergenerational Filmmaking Project (2017-present)
• ​CampOUT! Advisory Committee member (2014-2019)

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ATTN:

Megaphone Magazine (2019)

​🔗 Welcome to Vancouver's Yellow Revolution, Vancouver Courier (2019)

​​​🔗 34 International Stars Who Continue to Shine on a Global Stage, VOGUE, Sept 2018

​​​🔗 On air interview with Andrew Chang: "Same-Sex Marriage Coming to Asia", CBC News Vancouver, May 25, 2017

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MEDIA

• Interview / Love Intersections – Oral Traditions and Cultural Legacy, Massy Arts Gallery, December 2023
• Yellow Perils - The Bitten Peach: Decolonizing Queer Asians, MANIFESTO SPACE, May 2023
• Yellow Peril: Reimagining Queer Asian Futures Film Screening Panel, SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, July 2022
• Creating Documentaries with Social Impact with Jen Sungshine, Women in Film & Television Vancouver, May 2022
• In Conversation with Jen Sungshine, Climate & Collective Liberation Project, May 2022
• Artists hosting hot pot dinner party to help restore historica Vancouver Chinatown building, CBC, May 2021
• Vancouver artists share their stories of being queer and Asian, Medill Reports Chicago, Northwestern University, Nov 2020

Below the Radar · Queering Diasporic Narratives — with Jen Sungshine

• Queering Diasporic Narratives with Jen Sungshine, Below the Radar Podcast, Oct 2020
• Queer Chinese Diasporic Identity Narratives in Vancouver’s Chinatown, West Coast Curated, Feb 2020
• This exhibit explores queer Asian identity through the lens of China's traditional five elements, CBC, Feb 2020
• Interview with Filmmakers Love Intersections,  Ricepaper Magazine, Aug 2019
• Welcome to Vancouver's Yellow Revolution, Vancouver Is Awesome, Aug 2019 
• MOA’s From a Riot to a Revolution reminds all of the original intent of Pride, The Ubyssey, Aug 2019
• Love Intersections aims to present documentary narratives of queer folks not normally seen in mainstream coverage, The Georgia Straight, July 2019

• ​​Local Films to Watch this Weekend at the Queer Film Festival, Inside Vancouver, Aug 2018
• Why You Should Watch the 'Love Intersections' Short-Film Series, Vancouver Magazine, May 2018​
• Taiwanese-Canadians celebrate landmark same-sex marriage ruling, CBC News, 2017
• Jen Sung takes social activism back to the core issue: love, The Georgia Straight, 2016
• 6 noteworthy feminists battling gender bias in Vancouver, The Georgia Straight, 2016
• The People do Good Stuff Issue: Jen Sungshine, THIS Magazine, 2016
• 2014 Jer’s Vision Youth Role Model of the Year​
• 2013 Winner of Pride Legacy Award: Spirit
• 2013 Xtra's Top 30 Under 30 community queer leaders
• 2012 The Georgia Straight cover story​

The Georgia Straight (2012)

24 Hours Newspaper (2014)

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TL;DR

Yellow Peril: Imagining East Asian Futures in the West, Sticky Rice Magazine​, Nov 2020

Using love as language in the face of racism and queerphobias, The Georgia Straight, Jun 2014

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STORYTELLING

Selected Talks

• PechaKucha feat. David Ng & Jen Sungshine, PechaKucha Night Vol. 57, Playhouse (2024)
  
• Shameless Light, The Western Front (2024)
• ​"Lessons from a 500 sq ft Urban Jungle: A Fire Tiger's tale of living with a million houseplants," 10th annual Interesting Vancouver, SFU Woodwards (2017)
• ​Firestorms: Anti-Colonial Methods Elemental Panel, Or Gallery (2017)
• "A Fire Tiger’s Tale on the Ceremony of Rebellion," (In)visible: The Spiritual World of Taiwan Through Contemporary Art, Museum of Anthropology (2016)
• ​"On the Ceremony of Rebellion: How Tradition Saved My Life," Richmond Public Library (2016)
• "Resisting Intersectional Oppression in Activist Spaces," Simon Fraser University (2016)
• "How to be a Bad Asian," Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies, University of British Columbia (2015)
• Radicalizing Intimacy in Queer Asian Canadian Youth, documentary film by Joanna Yang & Stephanie Fung (2014)
• Pride launch speaker, Vancouver City Hall (2012)​
• PechaKucha 20x20 Vol. 22, Vogue Theatre (2012)

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WORK HISTORY

THE POLYGON GALLERY
OUTREACH CURATOR
2023–Present

POWELL STREET FESTIVAL
FACILITATOR, CULTURAL WORKERS TRAINING
2022–Present

SEIZE THE MEANS (OF PRODUCTION) VIDEO CO-OP
FOUNDING MEMBER
2023–Present

LOVE INTERSECTIONS
CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
2014–Present

SOCIAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
COMMUNICATIONS & COMMUNITY LIAISON
2015–2018

OUT IN SCHOOLS
PROGRAM COORDINATOR / FACILITATOR
2010–2015

VANCOUVER QUEER FILM FESTIVAL
THEATRE MANAGER
2010–2015

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TOOLS

• Workshop Facilitation
• Public Speaking
• Event Planning
• Community Development
• Professional Development
• Film & Photography
• Digital / Web Design
• Adobe InDesign / Photoshop / Illustrator
• ​Mandarin fluency
• ​Conflict Resolution
  

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SCHOOLED

​University of British Columbia
Bachelor of Arts, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (2009)