About us
SunKissed Productions (SKP) is a multi-media, independent film collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area. SKP is led by queer and gender non-binary, Asian American artists. We direct, write, photograph, film, and produce art that uplifts marginalized communities in a raw, authentic, and unapologetic way.
Our values
Healing
We are brave in our healing work and we unpack our trauma through art. We believe in the power of storytelling to liberate ourselves and our communities.
EMPOWERMENT
We make accessible the tools that have traditionally been guarded by industry and disseminate the wealth of knowledge that is already within our communities. We foster an environment that holds space for mistakes and allows us to learn and grow together.
Community
We create a safe, generative, and nourishing space where folks from underrepresented backgrounds, experiences, and abilities, can join together and claim ownership in telling the stories that are [individually,] collectively and authentically ours.
Tracy Nguyen
Tracy Nguyen was born and raised in San Jose, California. Growing up with refugee parents from Vietnam largely defines who she is today: a driven community organizer with a creative, entrepreneurial spirit. Tracy received a B.A. in Media Studies and Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley, which seeded her activist journey
During the last 10 years in the East Bay, Tracy has worked within the nonprofit sector to uplift the voices and power of refugees, immigrants, workers, women, youth, LGBTQ community, and incarcerated individuals. With her creative passion for visual storytelling, she decided to take my own vision into own hands and became a freelancer in videography and graphic facilitation. Today she is back home in San Jose with her parents, trying to combine all her worlds.
Sal Tran
Sal Tran is a queer Vietnamese filmmaker and touring speaker based in Oakland, CA. They are one of the co-founders of SunKissed Productions, a multi-media independent film collective led by queer and gender non-binary, Asian-American artists. They are also the founder of a cooking web series called Lost in the Fish Sauce that aims to reclaim the journey of healing through spices and food. Sal’s work is rooted in the power of storytelling and its ability to create, reclaim, and cultivate a space of growth, accountability, and groundedness.
Their work has been featured in the East Bay Stonewall Democratic Association, San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, Hanoi International Film Festival, As[I]Am Magazine, University of Southern California - InspirASIAN, and many more.
Lien Do
Lien is a multi-disciplinary media artist from Sacramento who now lives in the Bay Area. They have a background in music and design and hold a double bachelor's degree from the UC Davis. Lien is currently the co-owner and head engineer of Different Fur Studios in San Francisco, co-founder of the post-production audio company "Liema," and a graduate professor at UC Santa Cruz teaching audio. In their free time, they create sympathetic resonance installations for museums and make music under the names Lydie & Leviathe.
In addition to their work in music, Lien occasionally freelances in the visual arts and has been contracted for graphic design, digital design, web design, video editing, photography, and color correction. They are an advocate for accessibility in the arts and have created a program that offers free professional audio services to queer people of color.