A young man with long dark hair, wearing a black knit beanie, a gray t-shirt, a plaid shirt, and black pants, stands in front of an old wooden building with Chinese characters on a sign above the door.

NORBERT SHIEH (謝明洋, he/him) makes films about the things that most people walk past. Car washes, power lines, empty office buildings. Ordinary stuff that turns strange when you slow down and look.

His first documentary feature, PRESERVES, starts with a Taiwanese tradition of making suan cai, a pickled mustard green. It ends up somewhere else; memory, diaspora, and what culture holds onto when things change. Creative Capital gave him a grant for it. Filmmaker Magazine put him on their “25 New Faces of Independent Film” list in 2019, and his films have shown at the Flaherty Seminar, New York Film Festival, Jihlava International, and elsewhere.

He’s based in Los Angeles, works as a cinematographer, and co-programs at Shadow Kitchen, a filmmakers co-op rooted in independent and experimental cinema.

PRESS:

- Sundance Institute / The Asian American Foundation Collab Scholarship
- Center of Asian American Media (CAAM) Fellowship
- Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) MediaMaker Program
- Logan Nonfiction Program
- Filmmaker Magazine. “25 New Faces of Independent Film”
- Hyperallergic. ”Under Construction: Engaging with Art from the Ground Up”
- The New York Times."Now Showing, the Edge: A Festival’s Calling Card"

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