Beatrice Leong

Beatrice Leong is a Malaysian autistic filmmaker, disability justice advocate, and founder of Gather Together, an Asia-rooted disability feminist think tank and creative strategy collective working across disability, gender, access, policy, and narrative change. With over 15 years of experience in media and content production, her work bridges documentary filmmaking, policy reform, lived-experience research, advocacy, and public storytelling.

She serves on Malaysia’s National Council for Persons with Disabilities for the 2025–2027 term, where she contributes to national conversations on disability rights, autism policy, accessibility, and legal reform. Her advocacy centres women and girls with disabilities, late-diagnosed autistic women, institutional harm, and the gap between rights on paper and rights made real.

Beatrice is the director of The Myth of Monsters, her first feature documentary, currently in late development and early production. The film has received recognition and support through Docedge Kolkata, Sunny Side of the Doc, Docs By The Sea, CNEX CCDF Forum, and the IDFA Bertha Fund. Through an intimate first-person lens, the film examines autism, trauma, misdiagnosis, family, care, institutional violence, and the difficult question of what justice can look like when harm is both deeply personal and political.