Vanessa Hope (Moderator)

Vanessa Hope is an internationally minded, award-winning director and producer of fiction and nonfiction films set to date in the U.S., China and Taiwan that have been selected by Sundance, IDFA, CPH:DOX, the Berlin international Film Festival and Cannes. Hope made her directorial feature debut with the documentary All Eyes and Ears, an exploration of the complex diplomatic links between the U.S. and China featuring President Obama’s US Ambassador to China and premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Vanessa’s current documentary film Invisible Nation (www.invisiblenation.net) follows Taiwan’s first female president, Tsai Ing-Wen, over her two terms in office through 2024. It shares the story of Taiwan’s democratization, the threat it faces from China and the spirit of resistance, resilience, and progress within Taiwanese society. The film will release theatrically in Taiwan on June 13, 2025.

Vanessa and her husband, Ted Hope, share a company, Double Hope Films. Prior to her film career, Vanessa worked on foreign policy issues at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank in New York with Senior Fellow and Director of Asia Studies Elizabeth Economy. She received her B.A. from the University of Chicago in Anthropology and East Asian Studies and completed the coursework for a PhD at Columbia University before going into film.

The trailer is on YouTube here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RNUHWnt0bb0

With Chinese subtitles here: https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=1471511610897284&vanity=cnanewstaiwan

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