Jenny Suen is a writer, producer, and film director. She was born and raised in Hong Kong.

THE WHITE GIRL is her first feature film as a director. She wrote, produced, and co-directed it with legendary cinematographer Christopher Doyle. It stars Joe Odagiri and Angela Yuen in a tropical-noir love story set in the last fishing village of Hong Kong. It has screened at countless festivals worldwide, including a world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival. It was nominated for Best Feature Film at the Torino Film Festival and nominated for a NETPAC award at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. At its special presentation at the Singapore International Film Festival, it was lauded as an “accomplished first feature from Suen, [heralding] the coming of a new director with the potential to add truly unique offerings to the Hong Kong film canon.”

Suen also produced HONG KONG TRILOGY, a cinematic portrait of the city’s residents in childhood, youth, and old age, which was also directed by Doyle. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015.

She’s an alumnus of Tokyo Talents, Berlinale Talents, and her next feature project, PEACHES, was selected for Cinemart (2019) at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Berlinale Co-production Market (2019), and the Tribeca All Access Program (2020). 

Suen studied at the University of Pennsylvania where she graduated summa cum laude, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and named Dean’s Scholar, a distinction given to the top ten students of the graduating class. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Comparative Literature, Political Science, and East Asian Languages and Civilisation, but not in Life.

白海是一名在香港出生長大的編劇、制片人以及電影導演。

《白色女孩》是她執導的第一部電影長片。此部影片是她攜手傳奇攝影師杜克風一同撰寫、制作以及聯合執導完成的作品。這部熱帶黑色現代愛情童話發生在香港最後一座漁村裏，由演員小田切讓和袁澧林出演 。《白色女孩》已在全球無數電影節進行過展映，包括在倫敦國際電影節進行了全球首映，在台北金马影展获得NETPAC奖项提名，並作為閉幕影片在香港亞洲電影節展映。在新加坡國際電影節的特別展映期間，該片獲此贊譽：“白海導演帶來了一部充分展現出才華的長篇處女作… 一位有潛力為香港影片史添上濃重一筆的新人導演就此崛起”。

根據該片幕後創作過程所著的圖文書籍《談白》一經出品便榮登誠品書店美術類熱銷書榜冠軍。

另外，白海還制作了由杜可風執導的《香港三部曲》，該片用電影影像分別從兒童、青年及老年人視角，敘述了三段關於香港市民的故事。這部影片於2015年在多倫多國際電影節上首映。

白海以最優等成績畢業於賓夕法尼亞大學 ，在校期間，曾入選美國歷史最悠久的學術榮譽協會Phi Beta Kappa並被授予年級前十名的學者榮譽。她在學業生涯中修得了比較文學，政治科學，東亞語言與文明的學士及碩士學位，但對她來說，人生仍是一門在修課程。