Meet Xiaolu
photography by annabelle marcovici
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Xiaolu Wang (pronounced as Shao-lu Wong) is a filmmaker, a narrative healer, and a certified Community Coach in Healing Justice. She identifies as a Chinese transplant who grew up in the Muslim autonomous region in the northwest of China, now resides in the occupied indigenous homelands of the Dakota people, the twin cities. She is in the process of reclaiming her own stories and creating spaces for voices and stories that need to be told in our time. She believes that the basic conflict in our world, is the battle of stories. It is essential to be grounded in love and justice for the stories we create and repeat. She is committed to listening and crafting thoughtful and emotional stories, in order to build towards our collective liberation. She has diverse experiences in documenting social actions, portrait documentaries, art, murals, and movement/behavioral art.
VALUES
Xiaolu values nonlinear processes, media ethics, honest communications, complexity, vulnerability, and experimentation in her workflow. She strives to ask the right questions that get at the heart of each story, set clear expectations with her clients, create more possibilities with limited resources, and let the story move her before she makes the story. |