

SHUYUN SUN
Artistic Director
Sun Shuyun, Writer, film-maker, and Special China Adviser for the London-based thinktank, The Institute for Strategic Dialogue, Sun Shuyun is the founder and Artistic Director of EOS Films.
After graduating from Beijing University, Sun Shuyun won a scholarship to Oxford, where she
studied International Relations. In the past decade, she has directed and helped to make some of the
most watched documentary films in the West on China. They include A Year in Tibet, Dying to Leave,
Half the Sky, 1421: Did China Discover America?, People’s Century, The First Emperor, China Atlas, The Great Wall, Chinese School, Million Dollar Panda, The Age of Enlightenment, and Children of Tsunami.
A Year in Tibet, her 5 part series for the BBC, has been shown in more than forty countries, including on Chinese Central Television (CCTV).
She is the executive producer on the Marco Polo project, and for Art of China, a 3-part series for BBC, CCTV and ARTE.
She is also the author of three critically acclaimed books. A Year in Tibet accompanies the BBC and
CCTV series, telling the stories of eight ordinary Tibetans throughout the year; The Long March
records the true testimony of the Communist veterans whom she replace with 'encountered' while retracing the Long March; Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud recounts her physical and
spiritual journey when she followed the footsteps of the 7th century Chinese monk Xuanzang from
China through Central Asia to India and back.
She divides her time between London and Beijing.