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