Join us for a discussion with director and writer Jude Weng — known for her work with Netflix, HBO, Disney+, and more!

This event is a part of the CCAM Film Advisor Office Hours series, open to the Yale community. Students, staff, and faculty are invited to join us for these unique discussions between Susan Youssef (CCAM Film Advisor) and invited leaders from the world of film. Ask questions about everything from your creative practice as a filmmaker to getting your work out into the world. Feel free to bring your dinner or snacks to enjoy over the discussion.

CCAM is pleased to be partnering with Davenport College and the Asian American Cultural Center (AACC) on this event:

• Davenport College will present a College Tea with Jude just before the CCAM event. The tea will take place on Monday, November 3 from 4–5pm at the Davenport College Commons Room (248 York Street).
• The AACC will present a discussion with Jude on Asian American culture, identity, and media on Tuesday, November 4 at 4:30pm. The discussion will take place at the AACC (26 High Street).
• These events are open to the Yale community.

Jude Weng is a Taiwanese-born American director and writer for television and film. As an episodic director, she moves fluidly across genres, with credits spanning multi-cam comedies (“Frasier,” “The Conners,” “Call Me Kat,” “Two Broke Girls”), single-cam half-hours (“Ghosts,” “Twisted Metal,” “Only Murders in the Building,” “Young Sheldon,” “The Good Place,” “Black-ish,” “Fresh Off the Boat,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “Crashing”), and one-hour dramas (“Matlock,” “Quantum Leap,” “Shameless,” “The Last Thing He Told Me”), among dozens of others across broadcast, cable, and streaming.

Rolling Stone magazine named her episode of “Lucky Hank” (starring Bob Odenkirk) one of the “Top 10 Episodes of the Year,” while Vanity Fair hailed her episode of “Party Down” as a “Perfect Episode.”

Jude directed and executive produced the pilot of Hulu/Onyx’s “How To Die Alone.” In 2019, she became the first Asian-American woman to direct a half-hour broadcast network pilot, created by Emmy Award winner Jessica Gao. Her feature debut, “Finding ’Ohana,” premiered on Netflix to both critical and commercial success, remaining in the platform’s Top 10 Most Viewed Movies for weeks, and continues to be in the top 10th percentile of most watched movies annually.

Beyond the set, Jude is a dedicated teacher and mentor, serving as a Directing Instructor for the Paramount Directing Initiative, The Drama League in New York, and the Warner Brothers Directing Program (US & UK). She is an alumna of the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women, Disney’s ABC Directing Program, and the Warner Bros. Directors’ Workshop. She is also an HBO Writing Fellow and has developed and sold pilots to NBC, HBO, and Netflix.

Jude is currently directing “Oswald the Lucky Rabbit,” written by Jon Favreau for Disney+, and her episode of “The Summer I Turned Pretty” just dropped on Amazon.

Create, discover, and explore—and be part of the CCAM community! CCAM Wednesday Wisdom workshops explore dynamic intersections of the arts and technology, and are designed and taught by our team, along with collaborators from on and off campus.

This workshop, led by guest artist Roeland Hancock, Director of BrainWorks, will invite community members to test out his CCAM AI Incubator project “AiXit.” AiXit playfully explores the boundaries of human creativity and AI ingenuity, reimagining the game Dixit with AI storytellers to challenge how we craft stories, interpret images, and define humanity. At the event, pizza, beverages, and snacks will be provided for the group to enjoy.

Hancock holds a BS in Mathematics and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Arizona and completed postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco. Before joining BrainWorks, he was the Associate Director of the Brain Imaging Research Center at the University of Connecticut, where he contributed to a wide range of research using MRI, EEG, and TMS. His scientific interests lie broadly in the neurobiology of language processing, drawing on spectroscopy, noninvasive stimulation, and computational models to understand how neural dynamics constrain sentence processing.

There are more events in the CCAM Wednesday Wisdom series. Come to CCAM on select Wednesday evenings between September and May for creativity, conversation, and a shared dinner. For more information, visit the Calendar page on the CCAM website.