Aisling Chin-Yee is an award-winning producer, writer, and director based in Montreal, Canada, and Los Angeles, California.  She recently directed three episodes of the limited series Plan B, starring Patrick J. Adams and Karine Vanasse, that aired on CBC in spring 2023. Aisling won the Directors Guild of Canada award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Mini-series. She is an executive producer for Plan B’s second season. In 2024, she was honoured with the Trailblazer Award by the Reel World Film Festival.

In 2021, Aisling was celebrated as one of DOC NYC and HBO Documentary’s 40 Under 40. She was named one of Canada’s Rising Film Stars by Now Magazine 2019. New Yorker Magazine hailed Aisling’s latest work as “a genre unto itself” and one of the magazine’s Best Movies of 2021.

That was the documentary, No Ordinary Man, which she co-directed with Chase Joynt, co-wrote with Amos Mac, and edited. The film is about Billy Tipton, a piano-playing jazzman from the Midwest who, after he died in 1989, was outed to the media that he was transgender. The documentary premiered at this year’s 2020 Toronto International Film Festival and was named one of TIFF's Top Ten films that year. That same year, the film took home the award for Best Canadian Feature Film at Toronto’s Inside Out LGBTQ Film Festival, and the Nouveaux Regards / New Visions Award at Les Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal (RIDM), Best Portrait Documentary at Cleveland International Film Festival, and the Audience Award for Best Documentary at Translations Film Festival. Aisling, also an editor, was awarded the prize for Best Documentary Editing by the Directors’ Guild of Canada for No Ordinary Man.

Her feature film directorial debut, The Rest of Us, starring Heather Graham (Boogie Nights, The Hangover), Sophie Nélisse (The Book Thief), and Jodi Balfour (The Crown), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival 2019.  As a producer for over a decade, Aisling has been lauded for her fresh and unapologetic vision in feature films and documentaries. Aisling produced the award-winning feature film Rhymes for Young Ghouls, which was a TIFF Top 10 film and won Best Director at the Vancouver International Film Festival, as well as the award-winning feature documentary Last Woman Standing that same year. 2014 marked her year as a writer and director with the short film Sound Asleep which premiered at Lucerne International Film Festival.  In 2015, she directed the multi-award-winning documentary Synesthesia, which won Best Short Documentary at the International Crossroads Film Festival. She produced the gritty urban drama, The Saver, released in the Spring of 2016.

Alongside filmmaking, Aisling is an active change-maker for equality and diverse representation on and off-screen. In 2017, she co-founded the #AfterMeToo movement, which includes a fund, roundtable series, and report that brings to light the issue of sexual misconduct in the entertainment industry. In 2018 she was selected in the inaugural cohort of professionals in the 50 Women Can Change the World in Media and Entertainment in Hollywood. In 2019, Aisling received the TIFF Canning Fellowship.

Aisling was advised, mentored, and trained as a writer, director, and editor for many years by her late partner, the filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée. They shared a love for character, hard work, the power of music, and a commitment to deeply honest storytelling.

Aisling is represented by Raquelle David at Authentic Talent Management and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox.

Aisling is a Berlinale Talent Alumni, a Rotterdam Producer's Network Alumni, a Tribeca Film Institute Alumni, TIFF Filmmaker Lab, and the prestigious Academy Women Directors’ Program in 2017.  She is a prominent voice promoting inclusion, pushing the status quo, as both a creator and an advocate of other women and diverse perspectives. In 2016 Now Magazine features her opinions on changing the media landscape during the Toronto International Film Festival.

Outspoken, driven, and passionate about storytelling with an unapologetic voice.

Fluent Films is committed to making entertainment that represents and works with diverse voices and perspectives and telling amazing stories. In 2016 Now Magazine features Aisling Chin-Yee’s opinions on diversity and gender parity during the Toronto International Film Festival.