Bite-sized blog post: Fay Ann Lee

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FAY ANN LEE is an actress, writer, producer and director. She self-produced and directed her script Falling for Grace (2006) after shopping it around only to hear the screenplay could only be made by changing the main character from Asian American to White or Hispanic. The film went on to premiere at Tribeca.

According to her website, “The Sundance Kabuki Theatre in San Francisco was the first theatre that agreed to open up “Grace”. Without any marketing dollars, Lee and her editor, Michelle Botticelli, stood outside the theatre handing out custom fortune cookies to lure in prospective audience members.”

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AMAZON

VIMEO

Bite-sized blog post: Christine Chen

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CHRISTINE CHEN is a founder of the collective of filmmakers in Austin Texas called Moth to Flame Films.

Her feature directorial debut Funemployment (2017) was produced with that collective.

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Where to watch her films:

VIMEO

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Find her on Twitter
Find her on Facebook
Moth to Flame Films Website
The Daily Texan
Funemployment Kickstarter page
Interview

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2016No Brakes (Documentary short) (completed)
 2016The Earth Below (Short)
 2016/VIIIThe Void (segment “A Bird’s Nest”)
 2016/IIYa Albi (Short)
 2016/IYa Albi (Short)
 2015/ITwo Roads (Short) (attached)
 2015Two Roads: 15 minute (Short) (co-director)
 2015Pictures at an Exhibition (Short) (co-director)
 2015Blind Date Rules (Short)
 2014A Bird’s Nest (Short)
 2013Lawless (TV Series)

Bite-sized blog post: Jiyoung Lee

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JIYOUNG LEE is a director, writer, musician and actress who got her MA in Television, Radio and Film from Syracuse University in New York.

Her feature film Female Pervert (2015) premiered at Slamdance.

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

YOU TUBE

FANDOR

Bite-sized blog post: Christine Yoo

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CHRISTINE YOO is a Korean-American filmmaker. She filmed her narrative feature debut Wedding Palace (2013) in both the US and Korea.

Yoo studied fine art at the Rhode Island School of Design.

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AMAZON

VIMEO

Bite-sized blog post: Ramona S. Diaz

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RAMONA S. DIAZ studied communications at Stanford University and has gone on to direct documentaries which have been distributed by PBS’ Independent Lens.

She founded her production company Cine Diaz in 2000 to produce documentary feature films.

 

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

DON’T STOP BELIEVIN’ WEBSITE

NETFLIX

POV

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Find her on Twitter
Cine Diaz Website
Indiewire Interview
Don’t Stop Believin’ Website
POV – PBS
Guggenheim Fellows
American Film Showcase

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

Independent Lens (TV Series documentary) (2 episodes)

Imelda (2005)

 2011P.O.V. (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)

The Learning (2011)
 2003Imelda (Documentary)
 1996Spirits Rising (Documentary)

 

Bite-sized blog post: Emily Ting

Emily Ting

EMILY TING began directing documentaries and producing narrative fiction before directing her first narrative fiction feature film Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong (2015).

Ting is a graduate of NYU.

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

VIMEO

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Find her film on Twitter
Her Company Unbound Feet Productions Website
LAFF 2015 Women Directors: Meet Emily Ting – ‘It’s Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong’
Interview
Shockya Interview
Hong Kong Women Filmmakers

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2012The Distance Between (Short)
 2008Family Inc. (Documentary)
 2006/IIReality Check (Documentary short)
 2004/IIOne Night Stand (Short)
 2002What’s Love Got to Do with It? (Documentary short)

Bite-sized blog post: Bertha Bay-Sa Pan

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BERTHA BAY-SA PAN was born in New Jersey and raised in Taiwan and returned to the US to study at Boston University and get her MFA in Film from Columbia University.

Her first feature film Face (2002) premiered at Sundance. She followed it up with the feature Almost Perfect (2011).

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Find her on Facebook
Find her on LinkedIn
Bertha Bay-Sa Pan on Saving Face, and Making ‘Face’
The Clash of China’s Generations, Set to a Hip-Hop Beat
Interview
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2002Face
 2001Sluggers (Short)
 1997/IIFace (Short)

Bite-sized blog post: Alice Wu

Alice Wu

ALICE WU has a BS amd a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University.

She left a job at Microsoft in Seattle to pursue filmmaking and directed her first feature film Saving Face (2004), one of the few films with a full Chinese-American cast bank rolled by Hollywood after winning the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment award, was based on a novel she wrote about her experiences coming out to her family.

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON (Streaming)

AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE)

Read more about her:

ONLINE

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Interview
New York Magazine
Kissing Vivian Shing – New York Times
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

2004 Saving Face

Bite-sized blog post: Joyce Wu

Joyce Wu

JOYCE WU grew up in Detroit and directed theatre before heading to NYU for her MFA in film.

Her recent feature film She Lights Up Well (2014) reveals autobiographical elements focusing on an Asian American filmmaker who hails from Detroit. It is distributed via iTunes and Verizon on demand.

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Where to watch her films:

iTUNES

VIMEO

MR. RIGHT THE WEBSERIES

Read more about her:

ONLINE
Find  her on Facebook
Find her on Twitter
Joyce Wu’s Website
Interview
Head First Into the Deep End: An Interview with Joyce Wu
She Lights Up Well on Facebook

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

2014-2015Mr. Right (TV Series) (6 episodes)

Episode #1.6 (2015)
Episode #1.5 (2014)
Episode #1.4 (2014)
Episode #1.3 (2014)
Episode #1.2 (2014)
 2013Screaming in Asian (Short)
 2011The Man Downstairs (Short)
 2011Withholding (Short)
 2010Havdalah (Documentary short)

Bite-sized blog post: So Yong Kim

So Yong Kim

SO YONG KIM is a Korean born director who grew up in Los Angeles. She first delved into filmmaking through producing her husband’s film Salt (2003) and then decided she wanted to write and direct a film of her own film and embarked on her directorial debut with In Between Days (2003) which her husband produced.

Her most recent film For Ellen stars Paul Dano and premieres at Sundance 2016!

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON (PRIME-STREAMING)

AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE

FANDOR

SHORT – MIU MIU WOMEN’S TALES

YOUTUBE

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Company Website
Filmmaker Magazine
New York Times
Indiewire
For Ellen: director So Yong Kim on how she snared her star Paul Dano
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2016Lovesong (as So-yong Kim) (completed)
 2014Spark and Light (Short) (as So-yong Kim)
 2012For Ellen (as SoYong Kim)
 20113.11 Sense of Home (Documentary short) (segment “Untitled”, as So-yong Kim)
 2009Chinatown Film Project (as So-yong Kim)
 2008Na-moo-eobs-neun san (as So-yong Kim)
 2006In Between Days (as So-yong Kim)