Champ is an award winning filmmaker and editor based in Seattle.
Champ Ensminger is a Thai American filmmaker born in Chiang Mai and raised in Spokane, Washington. He has since pursued opportunities in filmmaking and digital storytelling in Seattle, Brooklyn, back in Chiang Mai, and back in Seattle. He has had the privilege of working with some amazing creative teams both stateside and abroad, and he intends to do so for a long time. His personal filmmaking practice explores narrative and abstract storytelling with music, as well as exploring his interests in culture and heritage through documentary. He makes up for all the time in the edit by cycling in Seattle’s glorious summer, or singing “Kiss From A Rose” at karaoke for the other 11 months of the year.
Photo by Canh Nguyen.
A Few Clients
Amazon, Microsoft, T-Mobile, Google, Visit Seattle, Taco Time NW, RVNG Intl., Okayplayer
Awards
Grand Jury Prize, Best Documentary Short, Yai Nin, Seattle Asian American Film Festival, 2020
Best Documentary Short, Yai Nin, DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival, Washington, D.C., 2020
Best Documentary Short, Yai Nin, Local Sightings Film Festival, Seattle, WA, 2020
Grants for Artist Projects, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA, 2019
Emerging Artist Fellow, Jacob Burns Film Center, Pleasantville, NY, 2015
Content + Community Apprentice, Vimeo, New York City, NY, 2011-2012
Audience Award: Experimental Category, TONAL, National Film Festival for Talented Youth, Seattle, WA, 2011
Speaking Engagements and Teaching
Teensway: Building Character, Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA, 2023
Filmmaking Fundamentals (Editing), Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA, 2019
Visual Storytelling Workshop, ACES: Artists of Color Expo and Symposium, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA, 2017
International Documentary Filmmakers Panel, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA, 2017
Meetup For A Cause: Filmmakers and Grassroots Groups, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA 2017
Teaching Artist, Chappaqua Summer Scholarship Program, Jacob Burns Film Center, Pleasantville, NY, 2015
Social Media for Photographers, Documentary Arts Asia, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2015
Intermediate Video Workshop, Documentary Arts Asia, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2014
Press
YAI NIN | King 5 The Stranger South Seattle Emerald VOA Thai The Cloud
Us | FADER
Pony Blues | NPR Music Stereogum Cool Hunting The 405 FADER Ad Hoc