Kayla Tong is a Hong Kong-born, New York-based director and cinematographer whose work explores migration, memory, and belonging across Asian diasporas. Her feature debut, Home/Land, has been selected by EURODOC, Docs by the Sea, AIDC's Cut to the Chase, and DOK Leipzig's DOK Preview, and follows the shifting meaning of home through the Hong Kong diaspora. Her work centers on people living in the aftermath of migration, tracing how history continues to shape lives long after the journey itself has ended. Her autobiographical short Home Is Where the Sunsets ran the international festival circuit and won Best Director at the Sacramento Asian Pacific Film Festival, and her cinematography has screened with The New Yorker Documentary Series, KPBS, SBS Australia, ViuTV, Busan International Film Festival, and ZINEBI. She is an alumna of USC School of Cinematic Arts, Busan's Asian Film Academy (cinematography), and Visual Communications' Armed With a Camera Fellowship.

Kayla Tong 是一位香港出生、現居紐約的導演兼攝影師，創作聚焦亞洲離散社群的遷徙經驗，透過影像探問記憶、歸屬，以及「家」如何隨著歷史與流離不斷改變。她的首部紀錄長片《Home/Land》追溯香港離散社群對「家」的不同想像，聚焦移民之後的人生，細看歷史如何在漫長歲月裡持續塑造一代又一代人的生命。影片先後入選 EURODOC、Docs by the Sea故事實驗室、AIDC’s Cut to the Chase項目市場，以及萊比錫紀錄片影展 DOK Preview。她的自傳短片《家在日落處》（Home Is Where the Sunsets）曾於多個國際影展放映，並獲薩克拉門托亞太電影節最佳導演獎。攝影作品曾於《紐約客》紀錄片系列、KPBS、SBS Australia、香港ViuTV，以及釜山國際電影節和 ZINEBI 等平台及影展放映。Kayla 畢業於南加州大學電影學院，亦曾於亞洲電影學院擔任攝影學員及參與「Armed with a Camera」計劃中擔任導演學員。

2025 - A-Doc Allies of Asian American Documentary Network (A-Doc) (for  "Home/Land")
2024 - DOK Leipzig DOK Preview International Showcase (for  "Home/Land")
2023 - Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) Cut to the Chase Market (for  "Home/Land")
2023 - EURODOC International Lab for Creative Documentary Production (for "Home/Land")
2022 - Docs by the Sea International Documentary Lab and Forum, Indonesia (for "Home/Land")
2022 - PBS San Diego Immigrant Stories Collection (for “Morning Passing on El Cajón Boulevard”)
2021 - Eyecatcher Film Incubator at Renaissance Foundation Hong Kong (for "Home/Land")
2021 - ViuTV Hong Kong TV Broadcast (for “Ateh”)
2021 - Audience Award & Special Mention at Hong Kong Fresh Wave Intl Film Festival (for “Ateh”)
2021 - New Yorker Documentary Series Official Selection (for “Herselves”)
2020 - SBS Australia Streaming (for “Morning Passing on El Cajón Boulevard”)
2019 - New Orleans Film Festival Official Selection (for “Morning Passing on El Cajón Boulevard”)
2017 - European Commission Erasmus Mundus Scholarship for Studies in Cinematography
2017 - Best Director Award at Sacramento Asian Pacific Film Fest (for “Home is Where the Sunsets”)
2016 - Armed With a Camera Fellowship Directing Fellow at LA Asian Pacific Film Fest.
2014 - Busan Asian Film Academy Cinematography Fellow at Busan Intl Film Fest., South Korea