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 first feature documentary, WE CAN BE HEROES — made in partnership with Concordia Studio and Muck Media — won SXSW’s Special Jury Award for Bravery and Empathy, Nevada City Film Festival’s Best Feature Documentary Award and the Audience Award at Woodstock Film Festival.

Carina began her career at VICE ON HBO, where she earned two Emmy Awards and a New York Press Club Award for outstanding journalism and research in the undercover investigation on the Chinese government's oppression of Uyghur Muslims (2020). Carina went on to produce National Geographic's TRAFFICKED WITH MARIANA VAN ZELLER, gaining intimate access into black markets, and HBO's WE’RE HERE, exploring queer identity in conservative America through the art of drag.

In her spare time, Carina works on her photography, developing and manipulating black and white 35mm film. She also has a deep love for psychology and spoke at the 2023 Ferenczi International Conference on Psychoanalysis in Budapest, Hungary.

Born and raised in northern New Jersey, Carina’s a proud daughter of Filipinx and Chinese immigrant parents.