Nominee 2023

Independent Lens: Hidden Letters

Fish and Bear Pictures LLC, Ten Thousand Images, ITVS, ZDF/ARTE, Bird Street Productions LLC, InMaat Productions, EST Media Holdings Inc., Nika Media, Chicken & Egg Pictures

Directors Violet Du Feng and Zhao Qing reveal how modern women in China are working to maintain the tradition of Nüshu, a secret calligraphy language used to communicate during a time when many women were kept from literacy.

PRIMARY PRODUCTION CREDITS

Executive Producers: James Costa, Ken Pelletier, Sally Jo Fifer, Lois Vossen, Jaeson Ma. Producers: Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas, Jean Tsien, Su Kim, Yiqian Zhang, Daniel Chein, Fred Grinstein, Juefang Zhang, Eric Tu. Directors: Violet Du Feng, Zhao Qing. Writers: Violet Du Feng, John Farbrother. Editor: John Farbrother. Photography: Feng Tiebing, Wei Gao. Sound/Music: Chad Cannon, Leona Lewis.