Carina Mia Wong is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist. She's driven to tell stories that highlight the misunderstood, the psychology of healing, and the power of magical thinking.

Her documentary directorial debut, We Can Be Heroes, won SXSW’s 2024 Special Jury Award for Bravery and Empathy, Nevada City Film Festival’s Best Feature Documentary Award, Woodstock Film Festival's Audience Award. Described by The Hollywood Reporter as “a documentary that will make your heart swell,” the film will be distributed in Summer 2025.

Carina began her career at Vice on HBO, where she earned two Emmy Awards and a New York Press Club Award. Other credits include HBO's We're Here and National Geographic's Trafficked. Carina is a regular speaker at American University's School of Communications and was a presenter at the 2023 Ferenczi International Conference on Psychoanalysis in Budapest. She's a student at the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicine.

Born and raised in northern New Jersey, Carina’s a proud daughter of Filipinx and Chinese immigrants. Today, she's based between Brasília and New York.