JUDY PHU
director of photography

always in pursuit of a view in surreal light

Judy Phu works as a fiction and nonfiction film and television director of photography and camera operator, visually thriving in spaces where the two mingle.

She has collaborated on projects that earned Emmy nominations (HBO's ABORTION, HULU/FX’s FRAMING BRITNEY SPEARS), and premiered at top film festivals (HBO’s GOD SAVE TEXAS: La Frontera, Sundance; THE TUBA THIEVES, Sundance; WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND, SXSW; OTTOLENGHI AND THE CAKES OF VERSAILLES, Tribeca; ABORTION:STORIES WOMEN TELL, Tribeca, THIS CLOSE, Sundance).

While working in radio (KALX 90.7fm) and chasing Bay Area curiosities and stories with The Daily Californian at UC Berkeley, Judy studied narratives in the Rhetoric department along with experimental film/video in the Art Practice department.  She earned MFAs at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and TV. She is a member of the International Cinematographer's Guild, IATSE 600.

Inspired by her family's nomadic, refugee lifestyles and war experiences, Judy has been photographing people of the Sino-Vietnamese Diaspora, with an anthropological eye on Millennial, Gen Z, and Gen Alpha Việt Kiều around the world.