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Sunshine Hsien Yu Niu is a Taiwanese cinematographer based in London, working across film and television. Her recent short film Rock Paper Scissors won the BAFTA 2025 Award for Best British Short Film, reflecting both creative excellence and a strong understanding of production realities.
Sunshine began her career making environmental documentaries, an experience that continues to shape her approach to narrative filmmaking. She is deeply focused on protecting performance and momentum on set, often designing lighting that covers all around of the environment, allowing actors and directors to work freely without constant technical interruption. This approach supports efficiency, flexibility, and calm decision-making—qualities that producers value when schedules are tight and days need to be made.
Having worked across the UK, Portugal, India, Morocco, China and Italy, Sunshine is comfortable managing local crews of varying sizes and budgets. She is known for her clear communication, steady leadership style, and ability to integrate quickly into different production cultures while maintaining consistency in visual quality and workflow.
Alongside her work as a director of photography, Sunshine has further strengthened her understanding of large-scale productions by shadowing and operating C camera for Chloë Thompson BSC on Netflix’s Pride and Prejudice, shadowing Catherine Derry BSC on Out of the Dust, and shadowing Emily Almond Barr on Maigret in Budapest and operated C camera on Vigil season 3 for Emily. These experiences deepened her understanding of departmental leadership, schedule management, and effective collaboration with heads of department—skills she brings directly into her own work as a DP.
Her short film work has screened widely at major international festivals. Bubble Boy (2024), a stop-motion animation she lensed, was shortlisted for the BAFTA Student Awards, while Maeve in the Dark (2020) screened at the Camerimage Film Festival. Her narrative credits include All Girls (2022), Liars (2023), A Love Worth Fighting For (2022), Demon (2020), We Choose to Go (2020), and Oudh Gohri (2021), all of which have screened at Oscar-, BAFTA-, and BIFA-qualified festivals.

interviewed with BSC magazine about the behind the scene of
rock, paper, scissors

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interviewed with BSC magazine in “Meet the New Wave session”
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