Chen-Hsi Wong is a filmmaker and associate professor at the School of Art Design Media, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. With extensive experience in both the independent and commercial industry, her film works have screened at major international festivals and received commercial distribution. Her dramatic feature film Innocents premiered in competition at the Rome IFF, and went on to win several awards including Best Director, Asian New Talents at the Shanghai IFF. Her next feature film City of Small Blessings was developed at the Torino IFF Film Lab, Cannes IFF l’Atelier and Venice IFF Production Bridge, and premiered at the Singapore IFF in 2024. Her creative practise spans documentary as well as narrative fiction filmmaking, screening at selective festivals and notable venues such as the Director’s Guild of America NY and LA, Anthology Film Archives NY and La Cinematheque Francaise Paris. Other short film works include Dev Null, Conversations on Sago Lane, and Who Loves the Sun. Chen-Hsi’s films are held in the collections of the Asian Film Archives and the Objectifs film library in Singapore and available on Itunes.

Chen-Hsi's work investigates representations of individuals living in liminal spaces and responding to changing urban and environmental ecologies. Her research focus is practice-based, specialising in directing, screenwriting, text to screen adaptations, independent film production and aesthetics, and South East Asian filmmaking. Her current work engages with the artistic preservation of cultural heritage in archipelagic and oceanic spaces.

She has served as the Acting School Chair of ADM (2022-2024) where she drove impactful curricular and organisational change. Prior to that, she was the Associate Chair for Faculty (2020-2022). Chen-Hsi is a strong proponent of the Singapore film industry and a supporter of gender equity and diverse representation in the film and creative industries. Chen-Hsi sits on the advisory committee for the Singapore Film Commission, as well as many national review and assessment panels in media and the arts. She received her M.F.A. in Film Production from the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, where she was a co-founder of the Women in Cinematic Arts. She received her B.A. (Hons.) from the College of Letters at Wesleyan University.