Haina Zhou is an Academy Awards shortlisted sound designer and re-recording mixer based in Brooklyn and Beijing. Her works across film, art installations, and podcasts, crafting distinctive sonic worlds that resonate with global audiences through subconscious auditory experiences.
SELECTED AWARDS
We Were the Scenery
Academy Award® Shortlisted
Winner of Short Film Jury Awards, Non Fiction
-2025 Sundance Short Program
A Dream Called Khushi (Happiness)Bronze winner - 2024 Student Academy Awards® - Documentary
Nominatee - the 44th Student Emmy® Awards
Best Documentary Short, Audience Choice Award - 19th Tasveer Film Festival
I Remember
Bronze Winner - 2025 Student Academy Awards® - Documentary
Grace Official Selection - 2024 Sundance Film Festival Short Program
Official Selection - 2024 Chicago International Film Festival
Official Selection - 2024 Film Independent Artis Development Showcase
The Truck (2024) Premiered at the 51th Telluride Film Festival
Presented by FOFIF Filmmaker Shorts Progeam screened at MoMA
Official Selection - the 32th Hamptons International Film Festival
Roots that Reached the Sky (2023) Official Selection - to BFI London Film Festival 2025
Supported by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science in Film Production Award, Sundance Uprise Grant Finalist, and Film Independent Sloan Film Summit
Kusi Smiles (2024) Official Selection - the 2025 Slamdance Film Festival Narrative Shorts Program
Premiered at LA Latino International Film Festival as part of Latino Institute Inclusion Fellowship sponsored by Netflix
Non-stop Station (2024) Official Selection - China Golden Rooster Awards Development Lab (金雞百花电影節創投会入圍）
Jelly (2023)Best HBO Shorts Awards - American Black Film Festival 2023
Jury Award - 29th DGA Student Film Award
One for Sorrow, Two for Joy (2022) Best Short Narrative - the 2022 Austin Film Festival
A Chat (2021) Official Selection - Cairo International Film Festival 2021 International Panorama
Official Selection - International Film Festival of Kerala 2022 World Cinema
Official Selection - Lima Alterna International Film Festival 2021 International Competition
Official Selection - Vancouver International Film Festival 2021 Gateway
Official Selection - Xining FIRST International Film Festival 2021
Dream of a Persimmon Girl (2024)Featured on NOWNESSASIA
Featured on Cinema Mon amour
I Wanna Become the Sky (2023) Official Selection - 34th New Orleans Film Festival
Motherland (2023) Best LGBT Short Film - 48th Cleveland International Film Festival (Oscar®-Qualifying Film Festival)
Artificial Flowers (2022) Official Selection - FLICKERS’ Rhode Island International Film Festival 2023
Mr. Sunyata (2023) Official Selection - LA Shorts International Film Festival 2024
Official Selection - Greenpoint Film Festival 2025
Garbage (2023)Official Selection - Micheaux Film Festival 2023
The Faerie Queen (Feature)Official Selection - Brooklyn Film Festival 2024
Black Kitchen Series (Podcast) Best Host Silver Award - Single Awards 2023
Best Writing Sliver Awards - Single Awards 2023
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Silver Award - Single Awards 2023
Listener’s Choice in Best Host, Best Writing and Equity & Inclusion. - Single Awards 2023
Bumingbai Podcast (Podcast) Excellence in Audio Reporting - The Society of Publishers in Asia Awards 2023
Academy Award® Shortlisted
Winner of Short Film Jury Awards, Non Fiction
-2025 Sundance Short Program
A Dream Called Khushi (Happiness)Bronze winner - 2024 Student Academy Awards® - Documentary
Nominatee - the 44th Student Emmy® Awards
Best Documentary Short, Audience Choice Award - 19th Tasveer Film Festival
I Remember
Bronze Winner - 2025 Student Academy Awards® - Documentary
Grace Official Selection - 2024 Sundance Film Festival Short Program
Official Selection - 2024 Chicago International Film Festival
Official Selection - 2024 Film Independent Artis Development Showcase
The Truck (2024) Premiered at the 51th Telluride Film Festival
Presented by FOFIF Filmmaker Shorts Progeam screened at MoMA
Official Selection - the 32th Hamptons International Film Festival
Roots that Reached the Sky (2023) Official Selection - to BFI London Film Festival 2025
Supported by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science in Film Production Award, Sundance Uprise Grant Finalist, and Film Independent Sloan Film Summit
Kusi Smiles (2024) Official Selection - the 2025 Slamdance Film Festival Narrative Shorts Program
Premiered at LA Latino International Film Festival as part of Latino Institute Inclusion Fellowship sponsored by Netflix
Non-stop Station (2024) Official Selection - China Golden Rooster Awards Development Lab (金雞百花电影節創投会入圍）
Jelly (2023)Best HBO Shorts Awards - American Black Film Festival 2023
Jury Award - 29th DGA Student Film Award
One for Sorrow, Two for Joy (2022) Best Short Narrative - the 2022 Austin Film Festival
A Chat (2021) Official Selection - Cairo International Film Festival 2021 International Panorama
Official Selection - International Film Festival of Kerala 2022 World Cinema
Official Selection - Lima Alterna International Film Festival 2021 International Competition
Official Selection - Vancouver International Film Festival 2021 Gateway
Official Selection - Xining FIRST International Film Festival 2021
Dream of a Persimmon Girl (2024)Featured on NOWNESSASIA
Featured on Cinema Mon amour
I Wanna Become the Sky (2023) Official Selection - 34th New Orleans Film Festival
Motherland (2023) Best LGBT Short Film - 48th Cleveland International Film Festival (Oscar®-Qualifying Film Festival)
Artificial Flowers (2022) Official Selection - FLICKERS’ Rhode Island International Film Festival 2023
Mr. Sunyata (2023) Official Selection - LA Shorts International Film Festival 2024
Official Selection - Greenpoint Film Festival 2025
Garbage (2023)Official Selection - Micheaux Film Festival 2023
The Faerie Queen (Feature)Official Selection - Brooklyn Film Festival 2024
Black Kitchen Series (Podcast) Best Host Silver Award - Single Awards 2023
Best Writing Sliver Awards - Single Awards 2023
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Silver Award - Single Awards 2023
Listener’s Choice in Best Host, Best Writing and Equity & Inclusion. - Single Awards 2023
Bumingbai Podcast (Podcast) Excellence in Audio Reporting - The Society of Publishers in Asia Awards 2023
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS
Appocalips (2023)
Installation showcased at THE SHED open call 2023Screening at Metrograph as part of Personal Archives of Home, 2025
Digital Luoyang (2022)Exhibited in Luoyang Museum, China. In collaboration with Harvard Chinese Media and Arts lab.