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Greg Pak, editor-in-chief and publisher
Greg Pak is an award-winning writer and director whose first feature film, "Robot Stories," starring Tamlyn Tomita and Sab Shimono, has won 35 awards and is now available on DVD from Kino. Pak is now writing comic books, including "Incredible Hulk" for Marvel and "Battlestar Galactica" for Dynamite. For Pak's full bio, visit Pakbuzz.com
Stephen Bai, contributing writer
Founder and president of the Workshop, aka the Asian American Filmmakers Collaborative, Stephen Bai is a graduate of NYU's School of Film and Television. He spent his time after graduation learning the mother tongue in Seoul, hiking amidst the grizzlies in Alaska, and experiencing the full production gamut ranging from p.a. to producer and director on a number of feature films, documentaries, corporate and music videos for companies such as Film News Now, Third World Newsreel, the Asian American Theater Company, the Brooklyn Motion Picture Company, and Zero Sum Productions. He recently formed his own production company, 12 Pictures, and is currently working on a screenplay entitled "Grace" and writing, producing and directing his first feature film -- a philosophically ruminated, Asian American "anti-romantic comedy" set in New York, entitled "Twelve."
Jean Chung, photographer of the Asian American Film logo photo
Jean Chung was born and raised in Seoul, Korea. She graduated from Seoul
National University in 1993. Afterward, she moved to the US to pursue a
career in photography. She went on to obtain a bachelor degree in
photography from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 1995.
At Tisch, Jean studied photojournalism. In the process, she pursued her love for Documentary Photography. Some of her projects include Asians in America (1994), The Journey with the Yeh-Yu Chinese Opera (1995), most
recently The Search for an Identity : The Korean Adoptees I Met(1999), and
The Brides Series(1999).
Presently, Jean works for The Korea Times in New York. It is the largest Korean daily newspaper in the United States. As a full-time
reporter/photographer, she has written numerous stories about Asians in the
tri-state area. Jean is most interested in the multi and inter-cultural
aspects of Korean and other Asian communities. Her work focuses on how Asian
Americans attempt to balance living in the American culture while
maintaining their Asian identity.
Visit Jean's Korean Brides project
Joan Huang, contributing writer
You might spot Joan Huang running around the film festivals with her DV camera, documenting all the craziness. Otherwise, she is hard at work developing projects for her new indie film production company, Cherry Sky Films, which co-produced Justin Lin's "Better Luck Tomorrow." In her spare time, she likes to take lots of funny digital photos, watch TV and log in into the Asian American Media Network, a Yahoo club she founded and maintains.
Jean Joson, contributing writer
Jean Joson (Director/Producer), a first generation Filipina-American, hails from the San Francisco Bay Area. She began her career in the entertainment industry at San Francisco State University working as an assistant to August Coppola on the Purple Globe Awards. She moved to Los Angeles in 1988 and began a five year career in casting (Ms. Joson was nominated for a Casting Society of America Artios award for the ABC After School Special Boys Will Be Boys). Which eventually led to agenting at Ellis Talent Group and It Models where she discovered Adewale Agbaje, star of Barry Levinson's HBO show Oz and Lola Glaudini, star of indie film Groove among others. Upon moving to New York, Ms. Joson worked as a Production Manager on music videos and commercials as well as casting associate to renowned casting director Bonnie Timmermann on The Insider. She has produced three commercial spec spots for director Scott Lane. Ms. Joson graduated from Cal State Northridge with a degree in Film Production. Her films include two shorts, Reunion (2001 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, Screening Filipino 2000, Kita Mo? Film Festival) and Swan Dive (currently airing on www.Hypnotic.com). Her latest short film is dirty which she'd like to tour the festival circuit. She is also writing a screenplay on the life and career of the first Asian-American silent screen star Anna May Wong. Ms. Joson resides in New York City. For more about Jean, visit Echo Entertainment.
Kevin Feng Ke, contributing writer
A filmmaker himself, Kevin Feng Ke also serves as correspondent for Chinese version of Screen International Magazine and Chinese Central Television Network (CCTV) Movie Channel's World Cinema Report series. He can be reached at kevinthedirector@hotmail.com
Min Jung Kim, contributing writer
Min Jung Kim, 25, is a young Asian American poet, writer, and student of life in the San Francisco Bay area. In her spare time she's a grunt in the
marketing department of TheMan.com - where she's able to combine her
interests in her favorite subject and her marketing style.
Min Jung, an alumn from the University of Michigan, has been published in
the Detroit Free Press, Asian American Women's Journal, APA Voices, We-Woori
Magazine, Mosaics, and several online publications. Her current projects
include her own column for IIStix - Zine You Want To Read and a never-ending-work-in-progress anthology of
poetry & musings. Any reference to husbands, spouses, ghosts, etc. is used
with poetic license and she is happily single despite anything her father
might say.
Minki Kim, contributing writer
A recent college graduate, Minki Kim came out of Rutgers with a major in English, a minor in Biological Sciences, and a dream in screenwriting.
While he does not have any professional accomplishments to speak of, Minki did almost win a spelling bee in 6th grade. And he makes a mean seafood ramyun.
Wes Kim, contributing writer
Wes Kim is the writer/director of the award-winning short films "Profiles in Science" and "Vision Test." He is also a co-director of the Seattle AIVF Salon, the moderator of the Seattle Asian American Filmmaking Mailing List, and the director of the 2003 Northwest Asian American Film Festival.
Wes has been a grant panelist for the Northwest Film Forum and the National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA), and he has been selected to participate in the inaugural year of the Artist Trust EDGE Professional Development Program.
Wes lives with his wife and two sons in Seattle, Washington.
Jennifer Phang, contributing writer
Jennifer graduated from Pomona College with a BA in Media Studies and in 1999
received an MFA in Film Directing from the AFI. She is the recepient of the
American Film Institute Holleigh Bernson Memorial Award, the 1998-99 World
Studio Foundation Scholarship (sponsored by Dreamworks) and the 1999 James
Bidwell Memorial Award. She was also selected as a 1999-2000 Honoree for the
IFP/West Project: Involve filmmaker mentorship program, and is currently
mentored by writer-director Tony Bui ("Three Seasons"). Jennifer spoke at a
screening of her thesis film "Love, Ltd." as part of the "Queer Women of
Color" conference at Cal State Long Beach. She has recently appeared wth
"Love, Ltd." as a guest lecturer at the Claremont Colleges, UC Santa Barbara,
Occidental College, and UCLA. "Love, Ltd." has been programmed and invited to
various international film festivals, was selected for the Bronze Medal at
the WorldFest Houston International Film & Video festival, and is currently a
finalist in competition for the Queer Short Movie Awards: http://movieawards.planetout.com
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