ROBERT Y. CHANG ROBERT Y. CHANG

Coordinating Producer, American Documentary, POV, USA


Robert Y. Chang is the Coordinating Producer of POV, the longest-running independent documentary showcase on American television. Prior to joining POV, Robert Y. Chang was the coordinating producer of America ReFramed, where for five seasons, he facilitated the national broadcast premieres of nearly seventy independent films

Robert has served as programmer, panelist, and reviewer for a range of film festivals, foundations, and funders of the arts. He has also served as juror for festival and industry awards including: the IDA Awards, RTDNA Murrow Awards, and the News & Documentary Emmys.

He received his PhD in Cultural Anthropology at NYU with research on the intersection of religion and media. As an independent filmmaker, Robert’s work has screened worldwide and is distributed by Documentary Educational Resources (DER). In 2020, DOC NYC awarded him a New Leader in Documentary Award and he is a member of the Producers Guild of America, A-DOC and NLGJA.

Institute/ Organization Profile
A national nonprofit media arts organization, American Documentary (AmDoc) strives to make essential documentaries accessible as a catalyst for public discourse. Collaborates with passionate filmmakers to amplify their voices, and to nurture the nonfiction community.

Produced by American Documentary, POV is the longest-running independent documentary showcase on American television. Since 1988, POV has presented films on PBS that capture the full spectrum of the human experience, with a long commitment to centering women and people of color in front of, and behind, the camera. It’s on POV where American television audiences were introduced to groundbreaking works like Tongues Untied, The Act of Killing and American Promise and innovative filmmakers including Jonathan Demme, Nanfu Wang, and Laura Poitras.

In 2018, POV Shorts launched as one of the first PBS series dedicated to bold and timely short-form documentaries. POV films and projects have won 38 Emmy Awards, 26 George Foster Peabody Awards, 15 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, three Academy Awards and the first-ever George Polk Documentary Film Award.

Website:www.amdoc.org | www.pbs.org/pov/