NORBERT SHIEH (謝明洋, he/him) is a Taiwanese American filmmaker, visual artist, and director of photography exploring the subtleties of the everyday. His work spans from experimental films that focus on different ways of perception, to delicate observational documentaries/narratives.

Norbert is an inaugural Sundance Institute / The Asian American Foundation Collab Scholar and a recent 2022 Center of Asian American Media (CAAM) Fellow. He’s a past Creative Capital Award recipient for his first feature documentary PRESERVES. He’s been in cohorts with the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) MediaMaker Program, the Logan Nonfiction Program and with Visual Communications's Armed With a Camera Program. In 2019, Filmmaker Magazine named him as one of “25 New Faces of Independent Film.”

Based in Los Angeles, Norbert’s films and collaborations as a cinematographer have screened internationally in numerous festivals and venues, including Sundance, Slamdance, AFI Fest, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, CAAMFest, LACMA, REDCAT, Anthology Film Archives, The Centre Pompidou among others. He has directed commissioned projects for KCET, The Autry Museum, European Capital of Culture and Pacific Arts Movement. As a DP, he filmed a season of the LA-Emmy award winning series “Lost LA,” and lensed projects for clients such as Hulu, Wired Magazine, Fender, FOX, and JetBlue.

Norbert holds a MFA in Film/Video from the California Institute of Arts, and a BA in Visual Arts & Film Studies from the University of California, San Diego.