carina mia wong

Sometimes, finding your tribe requires a bit of magic. For attendees of a live action role-playing (LARP) camp in upstate New York, the deeply accepting environment has given neurodivergent, queer, and self-proclaimed "nerdy" teenagers the space and community for self-discovery that they have never found anywhere else. As the campers immerse themselves in this imaginative world, they discover inner strength, heal from past traumas, and emerge as the heroes they are meant to be, both in the fantasy realm and in real life.

Winner of the SXSW Special Jury Award for Bravery and Empathy and the Woodstock Film Festival Audience Award, WE CAN BE HEROES captures and celebrates the small, fleeting, but profoundly formative moments that make up the most intense years of adolescence, with a little help from foam swords.

For more information, visit @wecanbeheroesdoc on Instagram.

PREVIOUS WORK

AWARDS + NOMINATIONS

2024 SXSW Special Jury Award for Bravery + Empathy - We Can Be Heroes

2024 Woodstock Film Festival Audience Award - We Can Be Heroes

2024 Nevada City Film Festival Best Feature Documentary - We Can Be Heroes

2023 Emmy Nomination - Outstanding Science, Technology or Environmental Coverage - Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: Amazon Mafia

2023 Emmy Nomination - Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Long Form - Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: Fish Pirates

2023 Emmy Nomination - Outstanding Business, Consumer or Economic Coverage - Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: Stolen Cars

2020 Emmy Award - Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newscast - Vice News Tonight | “They Come for Us at Night: China’s Vanishing Muslims”

2020 Emmy Award - Outstanding Research - Vice News Tonight | “They Come for Us at Night: China’s Vanishing Muslims”

2020 New York Press Club Award for Excellence in Journalism - Vice News Tonight | “They Come for Us at Night: China’s Vanishing Muslims”