She Measures the Earth follows four women scientists in Canada, Alison Criscitiello, Jocelyn Hirose, Isobel Phoebus, and Chimira Andres, as they reshape who belongs to science.

Director Biography - Ching Yu

Ching Yu is a producer-director and former geophysicist whose films drift between science, memory, and emotional rupture. Raised between cultures and now based in the Canadian Rockies, her work blends documentary realism with poetic experimentation, often exploring people navigating unstable landscapes and fractured identities.

A dropout from the UK’s National Film and Television School, Ching later studied under Werner Herzog in the Azores Islands, where she embraced cinema as instinct, risk, and emotional truth as much as observation. Her filmmaking is drawn to liminal spaces: glaciers, highways, laboratories, mountain towns, and bodies in motion. Influenced by scientific fieldwork and underground cinema, she gravitates toward stories that feel raw, intimate, and untamed.

In 2026, her short documentary She Measures the Earth was nominated for the Lindalee Tracey Award at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, recognizing filmmakers with a passionate point of view, social justice, and “a joie de vivre(joy of living).”