Aisling Chin-Yee

Aisling ChinYee born 29 April 1982 is a Canadian film director writer and producer She is mixed JamaicanChinese and Irish In 2004 ChinYee graduated from Concordia University with a degree in Communication Studies and a minor in Film Studies concentrating in film production theory and analysis In 2006 ChinYee started her career as associate producer at the National Film Board of Canada In 2010 she joined Prospector Films as producer She runs Fluent Films a film and television production studio Her first directorial effort was the short film Sound Asleep which premiered at the 2014 Lucerne International Film Festival The following year her documentary film Synesthesia won the award for Best Short Documentary at the Crossroads Film Festival Along with Mia Kirshner and Freya Ravensbergen ChinYee cocreated the AfterMeToo movement in 2016 which includes a fund roundtable series and report in partnership with the Canadian Womens Foundation In 2018 she was selected in the inaugural cohort of the nonprofit Take The Leads 50 Women Can Change the World in Media and Entertainment Her directorial debut feature film The Rest of Us premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival That year ChinYee received the TIFF Canning Fellowship She was nominated for best feature film editing by the Canadian Cinema Editors In 2020 she codirected the documentary feature film No Ordinary Man which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was named one of the TIFF Top Ten films for the year It won the Best Canadian Feature Film award at Torontos Inside Out LGBTQ Film Festival along with awards at three other film festivals ChinYee is a Berlinale Talent Alumni a Rotterdam Producers Network Alumni a Tribeca Film Institute Alumni TIFF Filmmaker Lab and was part of the 2017 Academy Women Directors Program