Poh Si Teng

Poh Si Teng is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist and the director of IDA Funds and Enterprise Program. She is the producer of St. Louis Superman, which was nominated for an Academy Award in the short documentary category, and won a Critics’ Choice Award. In 2020, she was one of DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 Filmmakers to Watch.

Prior to joining IDA she oversaw the US, Canada and Latin America as documentary commissioner and senior producer for Al Jazeera English’s flagship documentary strand, Witness.

Throughout her career, Poh has sought out and collaborated with filmmakers from a variety of racial, ethnic, socio-economic and religious backgrounds across a range of nationalities.

Poh was previously a staff journalist for The New York Times, where she was nominated for a national Emmy Award for Outstanding Interview, and received both a Society of Professional Journalists’ Deadline Award and a NPPA award.
Before joining the Times, she was an independent filmmaker and journalist based in India for several years. Poh is originally from Penang, Malaysia.