Tiana Lucerne Cheung

Tiana Lucerne Cheung is a 20-year old, Chinese-American writer/director based in Los Angeles & SF Bay Area. She attended UC Berkeley for two years and is now an undergraduate junior at USC's School of Cinematic Arts (with a major in Film & TV Production). Recently, she worked on THE MATRIX 4 as a Set Production Assistant. She interned at FilmNation Entertainment (ARRIVAL, THE KING'S SPEECH, THE IMITATION GAME) as a Production & Acquisitions Intern. Currently, as an Events Coordinator for Women's Weekend Film Challenge, LLC, she organizes virtual workshops with filmmakers such as Alma Har'el, Nisha Ganatra, Karyn Kusama, and more. Tiana strives to amplify underrepresented voices. More specifically, she plans to create stories that capture realism and humanize the Asian-American experience, rather than stuffing characters into tropes. She's worked as a 1st AC/Gaffer/Script Supervisor/PA/etc. on over 20 professional sets, ranging from a Student Oscar-winning DP to NCIS:LA directors to the star actor from "The Last Black Man in San Francisco." She was a part-time Shop Technician at DTC Grip & Electric, the Bay Area lighting company that equipped "13 Reasons Why" and "Sorry to Bother You." Two short films she worked on in 2020 premiered at the Arclight Cinemas Hollywood theater and LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, respectively.