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\"\"<\/a>Betty Yu is a Chinese-American NYC based filmmaker, multi-media artist, media educator and social justice activist. Her documentary \u201cResilience\u201d about her garment worker mother fighting against sweatshop conditions, screened at national and international film festivals including the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival.\u00a0 Betty was a 2012 Artist in Resident with the Laundromat Project. Yu\u2019s interactive multi-media installation, \u201cThe Garment Worker\u201d was featured at Tribeca Film Institute\u2019s Interactive 2014. She recently co-created the “Monument to Anti-Displacement Organizing” which is part of the Agitprop! show at the Brooklyn Museum. Additionally she is a co-founder of the Chinatown Art Brigade, a cultural collective telling stories of Chinatown tenants fighting gentrification through public projections. Betty is the recipient of the 2016 SOAPBOX Award from the Laundromat Project.\u00a0 She is currently an artist-in-resident at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York City. Betty is also an adjunct professor at various colleges teaching new media, art and video production. \u00a0Betty is a 2016 A Blade of Grass Fellow for Socially Engaged Art for her collaborative project with Chinatown Art Brigade.\u00a0She holds a B.F.A. from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and a M.F.A. from Hunter College.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ms. Yu’s organizing recognitions include being the recipient of the Union Square Award for grassroots activism and a semi-finalist of the National Brick \u201cDo Something\u201d Award for community leadership in Chinatown. Ms. Yu is currently on the Board of Directors of Working Films, Deep Dish TV and Third World Newsreel, \u00a0progressive media and film organizations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Work<\/h3>\n

Some of Yu’s documentary films such as Discovering My Grandfather Through Mao\u00a0<\/em>(2012) and a current work-in-progress,\u00a0An Unknown Home\u00a0<\/em>(2017), can be seen\u00a0on her Vimeo Channel<\/a>.\u00a0Fragments of You,<\/em>\u00a0an interactive non-linear video diary website (2010-2015) can be experienced here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Garment Worker <\/em>(2014), interactive media installation – on display at\u00a0Tribeca Film Festival\u2019s Interactive Showcase. The installation allows users to watch video portraits of garment workers through a sewing machine, displayed with photographs. Through the integration of a sewing machine, video and audio, it provides a rare look into garment working conditions that Chinese immigrants face in NYC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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