Robert Chang Coordinating Producer, America ReFramed

Presenting to the public diverse and consequential documentaries to illuminate complex social issues.




Robert Y. Chang is the Coordinating Producer of America ReFramed and is part of the American Documentary Programming & Production team. American Documentary is the producer of POV, POV Shorts, and America ReFramed. America ReFramed is committed to presenting diverse stories that illuminate complex social issues. The curated year-round series can be seen on public television’s WORLD Channel. America ReFramed’s weekly national broadcasts pose an array of experiences through which viewers can contemplate our past, understand our present, and challenge the reimagining of America’s future.

Robert contributes to series curation, coordinates production and release of digital assets, and assists in managing submissions, film evaluations, and filmmaker deliverables. He has served as juror, screener, programmer, panelist, and reviewer for a range of film festivals and arts funders. He received his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at NYU for his research on the intersection of religion and media. Robert is also a documentary filmmaker whose work has screened worldwide at festivals and is distributed by Documentary Educational Resources (DER). He is a member of the Producers Guild of America.