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...executive tucked away in the upper floors of a sky-scraping plush office, Hsia reports that she misses being a filmmaker and field producer, a position that allowed her to move “from war zone to rainforest to other major historic events...
...Hsia, who was born and raised in Illinois, the time for her own self-discovery came soon after her college graduation...
...fruit of her fledgling efforts as a novice documentary filmmaker, “Made in China: A Search for Roots,” led Hsia to a nine-year career of making films independently and for PBS, in lieu of a career at major networks...
Without family or classmate connections at the major networks—“My media connections when I moved to New York consisted of two names pulled from the [Office of Career Services] files,” she remembers—the always-resilient Hsia survived on “a pure love of filmmaking and the necessity to pay the rent...
...while it may have seemed that she had fallen short of luck, Hsia, who is Chinese-American, was actually unwittingly cultivating a valuable expertise about her heritage...