Hao Wu

Hao Wu’s award-winning films have been distributed through Netflix, Amazon Prime, Paramount Plus, MSNBC Films, New York Times, PBS, and BBC. People’s Republic of Desire (2018) won the Grand Jury Award at SXSW; 76 Days (2020) was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and won a Peabody Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.

Hao Wu’s documentary films have received support from The Ford Foundation JustFilms, ITVS, Sundance Institute, Tribeca Film Institute, and NYSCA. They are distributed through Netflix, Amazon Prime, Paramount Plus, PBS, and BBC, among others. His feature documentary, People’s Republic of Desire, about China’s live-streaming phenomenon, won the Grand Jury Award at the 2018 SXSW. Wu followed that film with All In My Family, a Netflix Original Documentary that launched globally in 2019. 76 Days, Wu’s latest work and the first feature documentary on the COVID-19 pandemic to play at a film festival, world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2020. Distributed by MTV Documentary Films, it was named a Critic’s Pick by The New York Times, shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, nominated for the Gotham Awards, and won a Peabody Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking.