Ai Xiaoming, a professor at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, is a feminist literary scholar, documentary filmmaker, and human rights activist. Ai Xiaoming has used video to highlight social issues such as women's rights and the rise of HIV/AIDS in rural China. She produced, directed, and worked on several films. In 2004, she set up an independent digital video studio aimed at empowering marginalized groups to tell their stories through media training workshops.