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91<div class="menu-about-menu-container"><ul id="menu-about-menu" class="menu"><li id="menu-item-52" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page current-menu-item page_item page-item-10 current_page_item menu-item-52"><a href="https://vincentdu.com/about/" aria-current="page">Bio</a></li> 92<li id="menu-item-51" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-51"><a href="https://vincentdu.com/contact/">Contact</a></li> 93</ul></div></div> </div> 94 </div> 95</div> 96<div class="site-overlay"></div> 97<a class='menu-btn'><i class="fa fa-bars"></i> menu</a> 98<div class="wrapper"> 99 100<div class="content-page"> 101 102<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" width="596" height="600" src="http://vincentdu.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/me001-596x600.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-32" srcset="https://vincentdu.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/me001-596x600.jpg 596w, https://vincentdu.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/me001-397x400.jpg 397w, https://vincentdu.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/me001-199x200.jpg 199w, https://vincentdu.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/me001-768x773.jpg 768w, https://vincentdu.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/me001-1192x1200.jpg 1192w, https://vincentdu.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/me001.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px" /></figure> 103 104 105 106<p>An award-winning filmmaker, Vincent Du has produced more than twenty documentaries for international broadcasters and organizations including Al Jazeera, BBC, NHK, Channel NewsAsia, World Health Organization, Tencent, iQiyi, and China Central Television. </p> 107 108 109 110<p>His investigative documentary “Chinaâs Pet ‘Economy'” was a finalist for the Golden Nymph Awards in the News and Documentaries Category at the 2022 Monte-Carlo Television Festival. It also won the Gold Award at the 2022 World Media Festival. His âA Day in Wuhan,â won in the category General Documentary at The Telly Awards 2021, and aired on Al Jazeera Arabic. His feature length documentary âSmog Townâ (NFF+IBF scheme, IDFA Bertha Fund, DMZ Docs Fund), premiered in 2019 as part of the First Appearance Competition during the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the world’s largest documentary film festival. It won best documentary awards at both the Millenium Documentary Film Festival in Belgium and DokuFest in Kosovo. His investigative documentary, âSmuggling for Survival,â aired on Channel NewsAsia and Al Jazeera English and won Best Current Affairs Programme or Series at the Asian Academy Creative Awards in 2019. Also in 2019, his short film âFighting Against Air Pollutionâ won Best Short Documentary at the China Academy Awards for Documentary Films, the countryâs top awards for the genre. Vincent Du is the founder of DuGood Productions.</p> 111 112 113 114<p>As a producer, Vincentâs projects have received support from several prestigious film funds around the world, including the Sundance Documentary Fund, the IDFA Bertha Fund, the Netherlands Film Fund and the DMZ Documentary Fund. Vincent is also regularly invited to mentor young filmmakers at institutions and events such as the University of Hong Kong, One World Media’s Global Short Docs Forum, Tokyo Docs, Korea Radio Promotion Association, and the Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival.</p> 115 116 117 118<p> Between 2010 and 2012, Vincent was awarded two distinguished scholarships, including a British government Chevening Scholarship, to complete tw
118o Masterâs degrees, the first in journalism at the University of Hong Kong, and the second in screen documentary at Goldsmiths, University of London. Before entering the documentary filmmaking industry, Vincent worked as a photojournalist for local newspapers and Reuters for 7 years. </p> 119 120 121 122<p>He now teaches documentary production at the School of Media, Arts & Humanities of the University of Sussex. He is also a PhD researcher in Film Studies at Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media of the University of Westminster.</p> 123 124 125 126<div style="height:100px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> 127 </div> 128 129</div> 130 131<div class="footer"> 132 <span class="copyright-label">copyright</span> 133 <div class="copyright-hidden"> 134 © 2026 Vincent Du </div> 135</div> 136
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