Bev’s Girl Films Produces BALANCING ACT Starring Lia Chang and Liam Quill Kong, for Justin Lin’s 2016 INTERPRETATIONS 2.0 Short Film Initiative

Lia Chang and Garth Kravits during Facebook live interview. Photo by Geoffrey Guerrero

It’s a wrap for Balancing Act, a new short film by Bev’s Girl Films team Lia Chang and Garth Kravits, created for Justin Lin’s Interpretations Short Film Contest for Asian American Filmmakers.

Lia Chang (Big Trouble In Little China, New Jack City, King of New York) stars in Balancing Act, a film she co-produced, co-wrote and co-directed with Garth Kravits (The Drowsy Chaperone, “The Blacklist,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Hostages,” “Civil”). The cast also features Liam Quill Kong, Pamela Bob, Dave T. Koenig, Laura Hall and Virginia Wing.

SYNOPSIS – How does a single mother balance her life, work and child?

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Balancing Act is the second short film created by Bev’s Girl Films, dedicated to making films that foster inclusion and diversity on both sides of the camera. We wanted to show, not only the struggle that working, single mothers face each day, but also show the joy and love that is often taken for granted.

Liam Quill Kong in BALANCING ACT. Photo by Lia Chang

You can check out Balancing Act at www.yomyomf.com, click on Interpretations and choose all entries.

Balancing Act Facebook Page

Fun in the sun with mom and sister Tami in Lake Tahoe in 1970. Photo by Russell Chang

Bev’s Girl Films is named after Lia’s mother, Bev Umehara, and this film was created to honor her, her father, Russell Chang, and all the single parents navigating their own ‘Balancing Act’.

Lia Chang, Marissa Chang-Flores, Russell Chang, Asia Flores, Tami Chang and Carlos Flores at the 2016 FIDM Graduation at the STAPLES Center in LA on June 20, 2016. Photo by Lia Chang

Lia received a Best Actress nomination for her debut short, Hide and Seek, a top ten film in the Film Lab’s 2015 72 Hour Shootout Filmmaking Competition. She is also a photographer and an award-winning multi-platform journalist who writes about Arts and Entertainment and Asian American issues on her Backstage Pass with Lia Chang blog.

Garth Kravits. Photo by Lia Chang

Director of Photography Christopher Plunkett, on the set of BALANCING ACT. Photo by Lia Chang

Award-winning composer Scott CHOPS Jung. Photo by Lia Chang

Edited by: Garth Kravits
Screenplay: David Henry Hwang
Director of Photography: Christopher Plunkett
Original Score – Scott CHOPS Jung

Special thanks to Joan Leviton Kagan, Erin Quill and Chil Kong.

Erin Quill and her son, Liam Quill Kong, on the set of BALANCING ACT. Photo by Lia Chang

YouoffendmeYouoffendmyfamily.com (YOMYOMF), the blog and entertainment website devoted to Asian American culture founded by Hollywood director Justin Lin (BETTER LUCK TOMORROW, FAST AND FURIOUS series, STAR TREK BEYOND) has launched the second edition of the highly successful INTERPRETATIONS Initiative that was previously held in 2010 to find the next generation of Asian American filmmakers. Comcast and NBCUniversal are lead sponsors of the initiative.

Judging will commence in July and August with the announcement of the Top 15 on September 6, with online voting kicking off that day through October 6. The final 3 winners will be announced online on October 10 and they will be invited to attend the NBCUniversal Short Film Festival on October 19 at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles. Participants must be a resident of the United States of America and at least 13 years old.

What is Interpretations?
INTERPRETATIONS is a way of encouraging aspiring filmmakers to develop their own original and unique voice. All participants will “interpret” a four line script, and can produce and shoot it any way they wish. The only caveat is that the lines are static and must be in that order and the actual film itself is no more than 3 minutes long. Therefore, everyone is shooting their films from the same material and leveling the playing field in a way that traditional filmmaking competitions cannot. Three shorts will be selected from the entries and these winning filmmakers will have an opportunity to produce a project for one of the Comcast or NBCUniversal platforms under the mentorship of Justin Lin and other industry professionals.

The first Interpretations Initiative kicked off in the spring of 2010 with nine commissioned shorts by the likes of YouTube stars Wong Fu Productions, Danny Pudi (NBC’s COMMUNITY), Far East Movement, and other industry professionals, to showcase the varied interpretations of the same script. In the end, over 275 shorts were submitted online and was whittled down to five winners.

Justin Lin. Photo by Lia Chang

“The first Interpretations Initiative was such a success that I am very excited to be launching it again and with a stronger fortitude to really make this more than just a contest but an opportunity to actually incubate potential careers for budding filmmakers.” says YOMYOMF founder Justin Lin, who is currently in post-production on his latest tentpole film, STAR TREK BEYOND (coming out this July). “Interpretations 2016 is a part of the bigger picture of YOMYOMF 2.0, where we want to establish and nurture an Asian American creative community of content creators and enthusiasts where ideas and collaboration is exchanged regularly and we can see what projects we can develop with emerging talent. I never had something like YOMYOMF when I first started my career. It’s an exciting time to be an emerging filmmaker.”

David Henry Hwang. Photo by Lia Chang

For this edition of Interpretations, the 4-line script was written by Tony Award winning playwright and screenwriter David Henry Hwang  (M BUTTERFLY, CHINGLISH, Showtime’s THE AFFAIR). “It’s not as easy as one would think to just come up with 4 lines of dialogue.” says Hwang. “The script needs to be broad and fluid enough so that one director could craft a comedy from it, another a speculative fiction story, another an action film, another an experimental work of animation, and so on.”

Here’s this year’s four-line script:
Don’t do that.
Of course.
I have my doubts.
What is it?

As lead sponsors for this year’s Interpretations Initiative, Comcast and NBCUniversal intend to support new talent and discover new opportunities for various elements of Comcast and NBCUniversal.

Lia Chang in BALANCING ACT

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Click here for the Lia Chang Articles Archive and here for the Lia Chang Photography Website.

 

The Academy Class of 2016 includes David Henry Hwang, James Hong, Daniel Dae Kim, Elizabeth Sung, Freida Pinto, Peter Pau, Deepa Mehta, Park Chan-wook, Poon Hang-Sang, Cary Joji Fukunaga, James Wan, Spencer Nakasako, Emiko Omori, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Jean Tsien, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jeff Imada, Mynette Louie and More

ACADEMY INVITES 683 TO MEMBERSHIP

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Wednesday, June 29, 2016 – 11:00

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 683 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures.  Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership in 2016.

18 individuals (noted by an asterisk) have been invited to join the Academy by multiple branches.  These individuals must select one branch upon accepting membership.

New members will be welcomed into the Academy at an invitation-only reception in the fall.

Learn more: http://www.oscars.org/2016class

The 2016 invitees are:

Actors

Mahershala Ali – “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 and 2),” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

Anthony Anderson – “The Departed,” “Hustle & Flow”

Adam Beach – “Suicide Squad,” “Flags of Our Fathers”

Kate Beckinsale – “Love & Friendship,” “The Aviator”

Chadwick Boseman – “Captain America: Civil War,” “Get on Up”

John Boyega – “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “Attack the Block”

Betty Buckley – “Wyatt Earp,” “Carrie”

Rose Byrne – “X-Men: First Class,” “Bridesmaids”

Julie Carmen – “The Milagro Beanfield War,” “Gloria”

Enrique Castillo – “Déjà Vu,” “Bound by Honor”

Morris Chestnut – “G.I. Jane,” “Boyz N the Hood”

Cliff Curtis – “Live Free or Die Hard,” “Training Day”

Loretta Devine – “Crash,” “I Am Sam”

Carmen Ejogo – “Selma,” “Sparkle”

Idris Elba – “Beasts of No Nation,” “Pacific Rim”

America Ferrera – “Cesar Chavez,” “End of Watch”

Vivica A. Fox – “Kill Bill,” “Independence Day”

Andrew Garfield – “99 Homes,” “The Amazing Spider-Man”

Greta Gerwig – “Frances Ha,” “To Rome with Love”

Jesse D. Goins – “The Ugly Truth,” “Patriot Games”

Bruce Greenwood – “Flight,” “Star Trek”

Carla Gugino – “Watchmen,” “Night at the Museum”

Luis Guzmán – “Punch-Drunk Love,” “Carlito’s Way”

Dennis Haysbert – “Dear White People,” “Wreck-It Ralph”

Tom Hiddleston – “Crimson Peak,” “Marvel’s The Avengers”

James Hong – “Safe,” “Mulan”

Oscar Isaac – “Ex Machina,” “A Most Violent Year”

O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson* – “Ride Along,” “Friday”

Dakota Johnson – “Black Mass,” “Fifty Shades of Grey”

Cherry Jones – “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot,” “Signs”

Michael B. Jordan – “Creed,” “Fruitvale Station”

Daniel Dae Kim – “The Divergent Series: Insurgent,” “Crash”

Regina King – “Ray,” “Jerry Maguire”

Brie Larson – “Room,” “Trainwreck”

Byung-Hun Lee – “Terminator Genisys,” “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra”

Nia Long – “Keanu,” “Boyz N the Hood”

Sal Lopez – “The Astronaut Farmer,” “Full Metal Jacket”

Ignacio López Tarso – “Under the Volcano,” “Nazarin”

Patti LuPone – “Parker,” “Driving Miss Daisy”

Peter Mackenzie – “Trumbo,” “42”

Rachel McAdams – “Spotlight,” “Midnight in Paris”

Eva Mendes – “The Place beyond the Pines,” “Hitch”

Tatsuya Nakadai – “Ran,” “Kagemusha”

Adepero Oduye – “The Big Short,” “12 Years a Slave”

Marisa Paredes – “The Skin I Live In,” “All about My Mother”

Nate Parker – “Beyond the Lights,” “Red Tails”

Harold Perrineau – “Zero Dark Thirty,” “28 Weeks Later”

Jorge Perugorría – “Che,” “Strawberry and Chocolate”

Silvia Pinal – “Vintage Model,” “The Exterminating Angel”

Freida Pinto – “Immortals,” “Slumdog Millionaire”

Michelle Rodriguez – “Avatar,” “Girlfight”

Anika Noni Rose – “For Colored Girls,” “Dreamgirls”

Cecilia Roth – “Lucia Lucia,” “All about My Mother”

Mark Rylance – “Bridge of Spies,” “The Other Boleyn Girl”

Pepe Serna – “The Black Dahlia,” “The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez”

Martin Starr – “I’ll See You in My Dreams,” “Adventureland”

Elizabeth Sung – “Memoirs of a Geisha,” “The Joy Luck Club”

Sharmila Tagore – “Dhadkan,” “The World of Apu”

Tessa Thompson – “Creed,” “Dear White People”

Lorraine Toussaint – “Selma,” “Middle of Nowhere”

Glynn Turman – “Super 8,” “Men of Honor”

Gabrielle Union – “Top Five,” “Bad Boys II”

Jacob Vargas – “The 33,” “Jarhead”

Alicia Vikander – “The Danish Girl,” “Ex Machina”

Emma Watson – “The Bling Ring,” “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”

Damon Wayans, Jr. – “Big Hero 6,” “Let’s Be Cops”

Marlon Wayans – “The Heat,” “Requiem for a Dream”

Rita Wilson – “It’s Complicated,” “Runaway Bride”

Daphne Zuniga – “Staying Together,” “Spaceballs”

Casting Directors

Shaheen Baig – “Youth,” “The Impossible”

Sharon Bialy – “Secret in Their Eyes,” “Mr. Holland’s Opus”

Sara Bilbatua – “Pan’s Labyrinth,” “The Devil’s Backbone”

Antoinette Boulat – “Diary of a Chambermaid,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel”

Deirdre Bowen – “Eastern Promises,” “Billy Madison”

Jacqueline Brown – “Akeelah and the Bee,” “Jackie Brown”

Carmen Cuba – “The Martian,” “Side Effects”

Christian Kaplan – “The Book of Life,” “Rio”

Moonyeenn Lee – “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Blood Diamond”

Natalie Lyon – “Inside Out,” “Toy Story 3”

Walter Rippell – “Everybody Has a Plan,” “The Secret in Their Eyes”

Richard Rousseau – “Saint Laurent,” “Renoir”

Kim Taylor-Coleman – “Dope,” “Oldboy”

Manuel Teil – “Babel,” “Y Tu Mamá También”

Cinematographers

Bárbara Alvarez – “The Second Mother,” “Whisky”

C. Mitchell Amundsen – “Ride Along 2,” “Now You See Me”

Adam Arkapaw – “Macbeth,” “McFarland, USA”

Sergio Armstrong – “No,” “The Maid”

Michael Barrett – “Ted 2,” “A Million Ways to Die in the West”

Natasha Braier – “The Rover,” “The Milk of Sorrow”

Lula Carvalho – “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “RoboCop”

Caroline Champetier – “Holy Motors,” “Of Gods and Men”

Enrique Chediak – “The 5th Wave,” “The Maze Runner”

Charlotte Bruus Christensen – “Far from the Madding Crowd,” “The Hunt”

Sofian El Fani – “Timbuktu,” “Blue Is the Warmest Color”

Mátyás Erdély – “Son of Saul,” “The Quiet Ones”

Frank Griebe – “A Hologram for the King,” “Cloud Atlas”

Kirsten Johnson* – “CitizenFour,” “This Film Is Not Yet Rated”

Judith Kaufmann – “13 Minutes,” “Inbetween Worlds”

Jeanne Lapoirie – “Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem,” “My Little Princess”

Hélène Louvart – “The Wonders,” “Pina”

Félix Monti – “Our Last Tango,” “The Secret in Their Eyes”

Peter Pau – “The Forbidden Kingdom,” “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon”

Daniel Pearl – “Friday the 13th,” “Aliens vs. Predator – Requiem”

Poon Hang-Sang – “Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster,” “Kung Fu Hustle”

Gökhan Tiryaki – “Winter Sleep,” “Once upon a Time in Anatolia”

Kim White – “Inside Out,” “Toy Story 3”

Jo Willems – “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 and 2),” “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”

Steve Yedlin – “Carrie,” “Looper”

Nelson Yu Lik-Wai – “A Simple Life,” “24 City”

Haris Zambarloukos – “Cinderella,” “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit”

Zhao Fei – “The Sun Also Rises,” “The Curse of the Jade Scorpion”

Costume Designers

Olivier Bériot – “Lucy,” “Taken”

Madeline Fontaine – “The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet,” “Yves Saint Laurent”

Pierre-Yves Gayraud – “Albert Nobbs,” “The Bourne Identity”

Sonia Grande – “Magic in the Moonlight,” “Even the Rain”

Suttirat Anne Larlarb – “Steve Jobs,” “127 Hours”

Manon Rasmussen – “Nymphomaniac,” “A Royal Affair”

Designers

Yoshihito Akatsuka – “The Left Ear,” “Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale”

Kokayi Ampah – “Knight and Day” “Flags of Our Fathers”

Jille Azis – “Magic in the Moonlight,” “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”

Hannah E. Beachler – “Miles Ahead,” “Creed”

Bert Berry – “Inside Out,” “Cars 2”

Celia Bobak – “The Martian,” “Shanghai”

Stephanie Carroll – “Elsa & Fred,” “Monsoon Wedding”

Sue Chan – “Gone Girl,” “300: Rise of an Empire”

Rodolfo Damaggio – “Tomorrowland,” “Terminator Genisys”

Rena DeAngelo – “Bridge of Spies,” “The Judge”

Warren Drummond – “Straight Outta Compton,” “Nightcrawler”

Colin Gibson – “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Happy Feet Two”

Bernhard Henrich – “Bridge of Spies,” “Unfinished Business”

Kalina Ivanov – “Max,” “Little Miss Sunshine”

Michael Anthony Jackson – “Gods of Egypt,” “Fantastic Four”

Philip Keller – “Jurassic World,” “The Last Witch Hunter”

Carolyn A. Loucks – “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” “RoboCop”

Chris Lowe – “Spectre,” “Into the Woods”

Ina Mayhew – “Barbershop: The Next Cut,” “Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds”

Alice Normington – “Suffragette,” “Nowhere Boy”

Hamish Purdy – “The Revenant,” “Step Up All In”

Peter Ramsey* – “Penguins of Madagascar,” “Shrek the Third”

Pilar Revuelta – “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” “Pan’s Labyrinth”

Mark Ricker –“Trumbo,” “Get on Up

Dena Roth – “The Wedding Ringer,” “Think Like a Man Too”

David Schlesinger – “True Story,” “Annie”

Richard Sherman – “The Gift,” “Beautiful Creatures”

Michael Standish – “The Danish Girl,” “Victor Frankenstein”

Yohei Taneda – “Monster Hunt,” “The Hateful Eight”

Lisa Thompson – “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “San Andreas”

Patrice Vermette – “Sicario,” “The Young Victoria”

Frank Walsh – “The Huntsman: Winter’s War,” “High-Rise”

Directors

Lenny Abrahamson – “Room,” “Frank”

Naji Abu Nowar – “Theeb”

Maren Ade – “Everyone Else,” “The Forest for the Trees”

Lexi Alexander – “Punisher: War Zone,” “Green Street Hooligans”

Haifaa al-Mansour – “Wadjda”

Ana Lily Amirpour – “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night”

Amma Asante – “Belle,” “A Way of Life”

Katie Aselton – “Black Rock,” “The Freebie”

Ramin Bahrani – “99 Homes,” “At Any Price”

Anna Boden – “Mississippi Grind,” “It’s Kind of a Funny Story”

Catherine Breillat – “The Sleeping Beauty,” “Sex Is Comedy”

Israel Cárdenas – “Sand Dollars,” “Carmita”

Carlos Carrera – “Backyard,” “El Crimen del Padre Amaro”

Nuri Bilge Ceylan – “Winter Sleep,” “Once upon a Time in Anatolia”

Souleymane Cissé – “Brightness,” “The Wind”

Isabel Coixet – “Learning to Drive,” “Elegy”

Ryan Coogler* – “Creed,” “Fruitvale Station”

Scott Cooper – “Black Mass,” “Crazy Heart”

John Crowley – “Brooklyn,” “Closed Circuit”

Julie Dash – “Daughters of the Dust”

Tamra Davis – “Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child,” “Billy Madison”

Jonathan Dayton – “Ruby Sparks,” “Little Miss Sunshine”

Dominique Deruddere – “Flying Home,” “Everybody Famous!”

Xavier Dolan – “Mommy,” “Tom at the Farm”

Cheryl Dunye – “My Baby’s Daddy,” “The Watermelon Woman”

Deniz Gamze Ergüven – “Mustang”

Valerie Faris – “Ruby Sparks,” “Little Miss Sunshine”

Shana Feste – “Endless Love,” “Country Strong”

Hannah Fidell – “A Teacher”

Anne Fletcher – “The Proposal,” “Step Up”

Ari Folman – “The Congress,” “Waltz with Bashir”

Anne Fontaine – “Gemma Bovery,” “Coco before Chanel”

Cary Joji Fukunaga – “Beasts of No Nation,” “Jane Eyre”

Nicole Garcia – “A View of Love,” “Charlie Says”

Juan Antonio Garcia Bayona – “The Impossible,” “The Orphanage”

Sarah Gavron – “Suffragette,” “Brick Lane”

Lesli Linka Glatter – “The Proposition,” “Now and Then”

Ciro Guerra* – “Embrace of the Serpent,” “The Wind Journeys”

Laura Amelia Guzmán – “Sand Dollars,” “Carmita”

Sanaa Hamri – “Just Wright,” “Something New”

Mia Hansen-Løve* – “Eden,” “The Father of My Children”

Mahamet-Saleh Haroun – “Grigris,” “Our Father”

Mary Harron – “The Notorious Bettie Page,” “American Psycho”

Marielle Heller* – “The Diary of a Teenage Girl”

Albert Hughes – “The Book of Eli,” “Dead Presidents”

Hou Hsiao-Hsien – “The Assassin,” “Three Times”

Patty Jenkins – “Wonder Woman,” “Monster”

Naomi Kawase* – “Still the Water,” “The Mourning Forest”

Abdellatif Kechiche – “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” “Black Venus”

Abbas Kiarostami – “Certified Copy,” “Taste of Cherry”

So Yong Kim – “For Ellen,” “In Between Days”

Kiyoshi Kurosawa – “Seventh Code,” “Pulse”

Karyn Kusama – “Jennifer’s Body,” “Girlfight”

Francis H. Lawrence – “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “I Am Legend”

Tobias Lindholm* – “A War,” “A Hijacking”

Phyllida Lloyd – “The Iron Lady,” “Mamma Mia!”

Ken Loach – “The Wind That Shakes the Barley,” “Kes”

Julia Loktev – “The Loneliest Planet,” “Day Night Day Night”

Ami Canaan Mann – “Jackie & Ryan,” “Texas Killing Fields”

Lucrecia Martel – “The Headless Woman,” “The Holy Girl”

Adam McKay* – “The Big Short,” “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy”

Deepa Mehta – “Midnight’s Children,” “Water”

Ursula Meier – “Sister,” “Home”

Rebecca Miller* – “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,” “Personal Velocity”

Karen Moncrieff – “The Dead Girl,” “Blue Car”

Cristian Mungiu* – “Graduation,” “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”

Anna Muylaert – “The Second Mother”

László Nemes* – “Son of Saul”

María Novaro – “The Good Herbs,” “Lola”

Victor Nunez – “Spoken Word,” “Ulee’s Gold”

Euzhan Palcy – “Siméon,” “A Dry White Season”

Park Chan-wook* – “Stoker,” “Oldboy”

Lucía Puenzo – “The German Doctor,” “El Niño Pez”

Lynne Ramsay – “We Need to Talk about Kevin,” “Morvern Callar”

Dee Rees – “Pariah”

Nicolas Winding Refn – “Only God Forgives,” “Drive”

Patricia Riggen – “The 33,” “Girl in Progress”

Gillian Robespierre – “Obvious Child”

Patricia Rozema – “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl,” “Mansfield Park”

Marjane Satrapi – “The Voices,” “Persepolis”

Sam Taylor-Johnson – “Fifty Shades of Grey,” “Nowhere Boy”

George Tillman, Jr. – “Notorious,” “Soul Food”

Luis Valdez – “La Bamba,” “Zoot Suit”

Melvin Van Peebles – “Identity Crisis,” “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song”

Margarethe von Trotta – “Rosenstrasse,” “Marianne and Juliane”

Lana Wachowski – “Cloud Atlas,” “The Matrix Trilogy”

Lilly Wachowski – “Cloud Atlas,” “The Matrix Trilogy”

Taika Waititi – “Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” “What We Do in the Shadows”

James Wan – “The Conjuring,” “Saw”

Keenan Ivory Wayans* – “Scary Movie,” “A Low Down Dirty Shame”

Apichatpong Weerasethakul – “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives,” “Tropical Malady”

Documentary

Joslyn Barnes – “The House I Live In,” “Trouble the Water”

Danielle Renfrew Behrens – “Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck,” “The Queen of Versailles”

Joe Bini* – “Tales of the Grim Sleeper,” “Encounters at the End of the World”

Douglas Blush – “The Hunting Ground,” “The Invisible War”

Rachel Boynton – “Big Men,” “Our Brand Is Crisis”

Irene Taylor Brodsky – “The Final Inch,” “Hear and Now”

Margaret Brown – “The Great Invisible,” “The Order of Myths”

Nancy Buirski – “Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq,” “The Loving Story”

Maro Chermayeff – “Marina Abramovic The Artist Is Present,” “The Kindness of Strangers”

Ramona S. Diaz – “Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey,” “Imelda”

James Gay-Rees – “Amy,” “Senna”

Haile Gerima – “Teza,” “Ashes and Embers”

Laurens Grant – “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,” “Freedom Riders”

Richard Hankin – “Art and Craft,” “God Loves Uganda”

Kazuo Hara – “A Dedicated Life,” “The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On”

Thomas Allen Harris – “Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People,” “Twelve

                                       Disciples of Nelson Mandela”

Matthew Heineman – “Cartel Land,” “Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare”

Judith Helfand – “The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement,” “Blue Vinyl”

Amy Hobby – “What Happened, Miss Simone?,” “Shepard & Dark”

Kirsten Johnson* – “Cameraperson,” “CitizenFour”

Asif Kapadia – “Amy,” “Senna”

Aviva Kempner – “Rosenwald,” “The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg”

Pedro Kos* – “The Square,” “Waste Land”

Victor Kossakovsky – “Vivan las Antipodas!,” “The Belovs”

Anita Lee – “Stories We Tell,” “Everybody’s Children”

Shola Lynch – “Free Angela and All Political Prisoners,” “Chisholm ’72 – Unbought & Unbossed”

Louis Massiah – “W.E.B. Dubois: A Biography in Four Voices”

Amanda Micheli – “La Corona,” “Double Dare”

Spencer Nakasako – “Refugee,” “A.K.A. Don Bonus”

Emiko Omori – “Rabbit in the Moon,” “Regret to Inform”

Joshua Oppenheimer – “The Look of Silence,” “The Act of Killing”

Dawn Porter – “Trapped,” “Gideon’s Army”

Gini Reticker – “Pray the Devil Back to Hell,” “Asylum”

Azin Samari* – “Ethel,” “The September Issue”

Jessica Sanders – “After Innocence,” “Sing!”

Regina Scully – “The Hunting Ground,” “Alive Inside”

Signe Byrge Sørensen – “The Look of Silence,” “The Act of Killing”

David Teague – “Cutie and the Boxer,” “Freeheld”

Trinh T. Minh-ha – “Forgetting Vietnam,” “Surname Viet Given Name Nam”

Jean Tsien – “Shut Up & Sing,” “Scottsboro: An American Tragedy”

Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi – “Meru,” “Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love”

Wang Bing – “Three Sisters,” “West of the Tracks”

Executives

Pam Abdy

Courtney D. Armstrong

Arturo Barquet

Arianna Bocco

Nicole Brown

Rona Cosgrove

Craig Dehmel

Zanne Devine

Lisa Ellzey

Monique Esclavissat

Pauline Fischer

DeVon Franklin

David W. Greenbaum

Matthew Greenfield

Erica Huggins

Peter Kujawski

Pamela Kunath

Christine Langan

Bonni Lee

James F. Lopez

Xavier Marchand

Anikah Elizabeth McLaren

James Rupert Jacob Murdoch

Lachlan K. Murdoch

Gigi Pritzker

Josh Sapan

Scott Shooman

Adrian Smith

Frank H. Smith

Darren Dennis Throop

Jason D. Young

Film Editors

Niels Pagh Andersen – “The Look of Silence,” “The Act of Killing”

Joe Bini* – “We Need to Talk about Kevin,” “Cave of Forgotten Dreams”

Bettina Böhler – “Phoenix,” “Barbara”

Pernille Bech Christensen – “The Salvation,” “In a Better World”

Raúl Antonio Dávalos – “The Amateurs,” “Meet Wally Sparks”

Marie-Hélène Dozo – “Two Days, One Night,” “L’Enfant”

Amy E. Duddleston – “Elegy,” “Laurel Canyon”

Suzy Elmiger – “Lola Versus,” “Mighty Fine”

Sim Evan-Jones – “Shaun the Sheep Movie,” “Shrek”

Sarah Flack – “Away We Go,” “Lost in Translation”

Affonso Gonçalves – “Carol,” “Winter’s Bone”

Matthew Hamachek – “Cartel Land,” “If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front”

Chris King – “Amy,” “Exit through the Gift Shop”

Pedro Kos* – “The Square,” “Waste Land”

Sylvie Landra – “Catwoman,” “The Fifth Element”

Tom McArdle – “Spotlight,” “The Station Agent”

Adam Nielsen – “A War,” “A Hijacking”

Kevin Nolting – “Inside Out,” “Up”

Nathan Nugent – “Room,” “Frank”

Stan Salfas – “Morning,” “Let Me In”

Azin Samari* – “Ethel,” “The September Issue”

Margaret Sixel – “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Happy Feet”

Mary Stephen – “Blind Mountain,” “A Tale of Winter”

Troy Takaki – “Baggage Claim,” “The Bounty Hunter”

Camilla Toniolo – “His Way,” “Company Man”

Bernat Vilaplana – “Crimson Peak,” “Pan’s Labyrinth”

Pax Wassermann – “Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me,” “Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer”

Julia Wong – “Hercules,” “Extract”

Mark Yoshikawa – “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 and 2),” “The Tree of Life”

Makeup Artists and Hairstylists

Karen Asano-Myers – “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “42”

Pierce Austin – “Concussion,” “After Earth”

Julie Dartnell – “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “Les Misérables”

Beatrice De Alba – “Away We Go,” “Frida”

Dave Elsey – “Mr. Holmes,” “The Wolfman”

Camille Friend – “The Hateful Eight,” “Django Unchained”

Anita Gibson – “Beyond the Lights,” “Top Five”

Giorgio Gregorini – “The Impossible,” “Apocalypto”

Siân Grigg – “The Revenant,” “Ex Machina”

Norma Hill-Patton – “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” “The Company You Keep”

Duncan Jarman – “The Revenant,” “Rush”

Love Larson – “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared,” “The Girl Who Played with

                          Fire”

Angela Levin – “Cake,” “Horrible Bosses”

Ivana Primorac – “Anna Karenina,” “The Reader”

Beverly Jo Pryor – “Straight Outta Compton,” “Selma”

Jan Sewell – “The Danish Girl,” “The Theory of Everything”

Maurizio Silvi – “The Great Gatsby,” “Moulin Rouge”

Heba Thorisdottir – “The Hateful Eight,” “Bridesmaids”

Lesley Vanderwalt – “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “The Great Gatsby”

Eva von Bahr – “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared,” “The Girl with the Dragon

                           Tattoo”

Music

Lesley Barber – “The Moth Diaries,” “Los Locos”

Wendy Blackstone – “Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger,” “To Be Heard”

Mary J. Blige – “The Help,” “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”

Kathryn Bostic – “Dear White People,” “The New Black”

Carl Davis – “The Understudy,” “Scandal”

Joseph S. DeBeasi – “The Revenant,” “Sicario”

Joanie Diener – “Merchants of Doubt,” “The Skulls”

Fitzgerald Diggs (RZA) – “Django Unchained,” “The Man with the Iron Fists”

Germaine Franco – “Dope,” “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”

Sia Furler – “Zootopia,” “Fifty Shades of Grey”

Peter Golub – “Audrey,” “Countdown to Zero”

Amanda Goodpaster – “Pitch Perfect 2,” “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”

Tanya Noel Hill – “Ant-Man,” “Chef”

Deborah Lurie – “Safe Haven,” “Dear John”

Heather McIntosh – “Z for Zachariah,” “Honeymoon”

Marcus Miller – “About Last Night,” “Deliver Us from Eva”

Antonio Pinto – “Amy,” “Senna”

Raphael Saadiq – “Epic,” “Love and Basketball”

Jim Schultz – “Black Mass,” “Inglourious Basterds”

Del Spiva – “Fury,” “Prometheus”

Taura Stinson – “Rio 2,” “Black Nativity”

Joseph Trapanese – “Straight Outta Compton,” “Nightcrawler”

Shigeru Umebayashi – “The Grandmaster,” “2046”

Fernando Velázquez – “Crimson Peak,” “Mama”

Will.i.am – “The Great Gatsby,” “Rio”

Marcelo Zarvos – “Rock the Kasbah,” “The Beaver”

Producers

Belén Atienza – “Out of the Dark,” “The Impossible”

Amy Baer – “A Storm in the Stars,” “Last Vegas”

David Barron – “Cinderella,” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Parts 1 and 2)

Ram Bergman – “Don Jon,” “Looper”

Virginie Besson-Silla – “Lucy,” “The Lady”

Fernando Bovaira – “Biutiful,” “The Sea Inside”

Anne Carey – “Mr. Holmes,” “The Savages”

Debra Martin Chase – “Sparkle,” “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”

Bonnie Curtis – “Albert Nobbs,” “Minority Report”

Susan Downey – “The Judge,” “Sherlock Holmes”

Ed Guiney – “Room,” “Frank”

Paul E. Hall – “Peeples,” “For Colored Girls”

Rachael Horovitz – “Maggie’s Plan,” “Moneyball”

Mark Huffam – “The Martian,” “Exodus: Gods and Kings”

Elizabeth Karlsen – “Carol,” “Made in Dagenham”

Gail Katz – “Pawn Sacrifice,” “The Perfect Storm”

Amy Kaufman – “Beasts of No Nation, “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”

Neil Kopp – “Green Room,” “Wendy and Lucy”

Kristie Macosko Krieger – “Bridge of Spies,” “Lincoln”

David Lancaster – “Eye in the Sky,” “Whiplash”

Albert Lee – “Chinese Zodiac,” “Let the Bullets Fly”

Roy Lee – “The Lego Movie,” “Abduction”

Mynette Louie – “Land Ho!,” “Cold Comes the Night”

Daniela Taplin Lundberg – “Beasts of No Nation,” “The Kids Are All Right”

Lori McCreary – “The Magic of Belle Isle,” “Invictus”

Edward L. McDonnell – “Sicario,” “Insomnia”

Jamie Patricof – “Mississippi Grind,” “Blue Valentine”

Amanda Posey – “Brooklyn,” “An Education”

Heather Rae – “The Dry Land,” “Frozen River”

Alexander Rodnyansky – “Leviathan,” “Stalingrad”

Esther García Rodríguez – “Wild Tales,” “The Skin I Live In”

Anish Savjani – “Green Room,” “Meek’s Cutoff”

Allison Shearmur – “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” “Cinderella”

Michael Sugar – “Spotlight,” “The Fifth Estate”

Robert Teitel – “Barbershop: The Next Cut,” “Men of Honor”

Rodrigo Teixeira – “The Witch,” “Mistress America”

Nina Yang Bongiovi – “Dope,” “Fruitvale Station”

Public Relations

Michael S. Agulnek

Marina Bailey

Jacqueline L. Bazan

Stephen D. Bruno

Cassandra O. Butcher

Zachary Eller

Linda Guerrero

Barry Dale Johnson

Kate Lee

Amy Mastriona

R.J. Millard

Kelly Bush Novak

Fumiko Kitahara Otto

Jack Pan

Terra Potts

Arnold Robinson

David Stern

Lisa Taback

Jean-Pierre Vincent

David S. Waldman

Ryan Werner

Katherine Willing

Short Films and Feature Animation

Alê Abreu – “Boy and the World,” “Cosmic Boy”

Line K. Andersen – “The Croods,” “Monsters vs Aliens”

Bruce Anderson – “Rio 2,” “Rio”

Graham Annable – “The Boxtrolls,” “ParaNorman”

Guillaume Aretos – “Puss in Boots,” “Shrek the Third”

Serena Armitage – “Stutterer,” “Scorned”

Sanjay Bakshi – “The Good Dinosaur,” “Monsters University”

Maxwell Boas – “Kung Fu Panda 3,” “Rise of the Guardians”

Lydia Bottegoni – “Hotel Transylvania,” “Surf’s Up”

Rebecca Wilson Bresee – “Zootopia,” “Frozen”

Mark Burton – “Shaun the Sheep Movie,” “Gnomeo & Juliet”

Chris Butler – “ParaNorman,” “Coraline”

Clément Calvet – “Cafard,” “Song of the Sea”

Tom Cardone – “Rio 2,” “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!”

Marci Carlin – “The Soul of Nashville,” “Human Destiny”

Galen Tan Chu – “Epic,” “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs”

Benjamin Cleary – “Love Is a Sting,” “Stutterer”

Pam Coats – “Gnomeo & Juliet,” “Mulan”

Melissa Beth Cobb – “Kung Fu Panda 3,” “Kung Fu Panda 2”

Deborah Cook – “The Boxtrolls,” “ParaNorman”

Jamie Oliver Donoughue – “Shok,” “Life on the Line”

Renato Dos Anjos – “Wreck-It Ralph,” “Bolt”

Jeff Draheim – “Frozen,” “The Princess and the Frog”

Karen Dufilho – “Duet,” “For the Birds”

Pato Escala – “Bear Story”

Katie Fico – “Zootopia,” “Feast”

Michael Fong – “Inside Out,” “Toy Story 3”

Lori Forte – “Epic,” “Ice Age Continental Drift”

Oorlagh George – “The Shore”

Jonathan Gibbs – “Turbo,” “The Croods”

Steven Goldberg – “Frozen,” “Tangled”

Judith Gruber-Stitzer – “Wild Life,” “When the Day Breaks”

Jorge R. Gutierrez – “The Book of Life,” “Carmelo”

Jane Hartwell – “The Croods,” “Madagascar”

Georgina Hayns – “The Boxtrolls,” “ParaNorman”

Janet Healy – “Minions,” “Despicable Me 2”

Tang K. Heng – “Kung Fu Panda 2,” “Kung Fu Panda”

Jon W.S. Huertas – “The Box,” “Lone”

Raman Hui – “Monster Hunt,” “Shrek the Third”

Claire Jennings – “Coraline,” “Father and Daughter”

Yong Duk Jhun – “The Croods,” “Shrek Forever After”

Sahim Omar Kalifa – “Bad Hunter,” “Baghdad Messi”

Scott Kersavage – “Zootopia,” “Wreck-It Ralph”

Basil Khalil – “Ave Maria,” “Shooter”

Michael Knapp – “Epic,” “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs”

Robert Kondo – “The Dam Keeper,” “La Luna”

Shawn Krause – “Inside Out,” “Cars 2”

Max Lang – “Room on the Broom,” “The Gruffalo”

Nicolas Marlet – “Kung Fu Panda 3,” “How to Train Your Dragon 2”

Steve Martino – “The Peanuts Movie,” “Ice Age Continental Drift”

Dale Mayeda – “Planes: Fire & Rescue,” “Frozen”

Brian McLean – “The Boxtrolls,” “ParaNorman”

Mike Mitchell – “Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked,” “Shrek Forever After”

Joe Moshier – “Penguins of Madagascar,” “How to Train Your Dragon 2”

James Ford Murphy – “Lava,” “Cars”

Kiel Murray – “Up,” “Cars”

Yoshiaki Nishimura – “When Marnie Was There,” “The Tale of the Princess Kaguya”

Kyle Odermatt – “Big Hero 6,” “Paperman”

Linda Campos Olszewski – “Car-Ma’,” “A Bad Hair Day”

Gabriel Osorio – “Bear Story,” “Residuos”

Sanjay Patel – “Sanjay’s Super Team,” “Tokyo Mater”

Martin Pope – “Room on the Broom,” “Chico & Rita”

Christian Potalivo – “The New Tenants,” “The Pig”

Tina Price – “Dinosaur,” “Fantasia/2000”

Peter Ramsey* – “Rise of the Guardians,” “Monsters vs Aliens”

Denise Ream – “The Good Dinosaur,” “Cars 2”

Julie Roy – “Carface,” “Kali the Little Vampire”

Damon Russell – “Curfew,” “Brink”

William Salazar – “Kung Fu Panda 3,” “Monsters vs Aliens”

Scott Santoro – “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2,” “Flushed Away”

Katherine Sarafian – “Brave,” “Lifted”

Kent Seki – “Rocky and Bullwinkle,” “Megamind”

Osnat Shurer – “One Man Band,” “Boundin’”

Mireille Soria – “Home,” “Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted”

Richard Starzak – “Shaun the Sheep Movie,” “A Matter of Loaf and Death”

Michael D. Surrey – “The Princess and the Frog,” “The Lion King”

Galyn Susman – “Ratatouille,” “Toy Story 2”

Imogen Sutton – “Prologue,” “The Thief and the Cobbler”

Dice Tsutsumi – “The Dam Keeper,” “Monsters University”

Nora Twomey – “Song of the Sea,” “The Secret of Kells”

Pablo Valle – “How to Train Your Dragon 2,” “Turbo”

Michael Venturini – “The Good Dinosaur,” “Toy Story 3”

Pierre-Olivier Vincent – “How to Train Your Dragon 2,” “How to Train Your Dragon”

Patrick Vollrath – “Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut),” “The Jacket (Die Jacke)”

Dan Wagner – “Kung Fu Panda 3,” “Kung Fu Panda 2”

Koji Yamamura – “Muybridge’s Strings,” “Mt. Head”

Hiromasa Yonebayashi – “When Marnie Was There,” “The Secret World of Arrietty”

Raymond Zibach – “Kung Fu Panda 3,” “Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas”

Sound

Pud Cusack – “Free State of Jones,” “The Mask of Zorro”

Susan Dawes – “Deadpool,” “Wild”

Chris Duesterdiek – “The Revenant,” “Elysium”

Tammy Fearing – “Trainwreck,” “Bridesmaids”

Roberto Fernandez – “St. Vincent,” “Drive”

Eric Flickinger – “The Big Short,” “World War Z”

Gabriel Gutiérrez – “Automata,” “Mama”

Matthew Harrison – “Paper Towns,” “The Maze Runner”

Nina Hartstone – “The Book Thief,” “Gravity”

Michael Hertlein – “The Hateful Eight,” “American Hustle”

Paul Hsu – “Spotlight,” “Salt”

George Lara – “Chi-Raq,” “Spotlight”

Anna MacKenzie – “Spectre,” “Prometheus”

John G. Marquis – “Godzilla,” “Beautiful Creatures”

James Harley Mather – “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation,” “Sherlock Holmes”

Chuck Michael – “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “X-Men: Days of Future Past”

Timothy Karl Nielsen – “Racing Extinction,” “War Horse”

Eric Norris – “Unbroken,” “Man of Steel”

Ben Osmo – “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Happy Feet Two”

Eliza Paley – “Miles Ahead,” “Carol”

Glenfield Payne – “Beasts of No Nation,” “Blue Jasmine”

Michele Perrone – “The Revenant,” “Straight Outta Compton”

Lisa Pinero – “Steve Jobs,” “Fury”

Mac Ruth – “The Martian,” “World War Z”

Christopher Scarabosio – “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel”

Paul P. Soucek – “Fright Night,” “Michael Clayton”

Nancy Nugent Title – “Spy,” “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”

Richard Toenes – “Iron Man 3,” “Warrior”

Todd Toon – “The Revenant,” “The Princess and the Frog”

Bernard Weiser – “American Hustle,” “The Hurt Locker”

David White – “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “The Railway Man”

Byron Wilson – “Black Mass,” “True Grit”

Matthew R. Wood – “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “WALL-E”

Tamás Zányi – “Son of Saul,” “Delta”

Visual Effects

Kevin Baillie – “The Walk,” “Transformers: Age of Extinction”

Sara Bennett – “Ex Machina,” “Hercules”

Theo Bialek – “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” “The Smurfs 2”

Richard Bluff – “The Big Short,” “Unbroken”

Steve Cremin – “Hail, Caesar!,” “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 and 2)”

Lindy Wilson De Quattro – “Pacific Rim,” “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol”

Adrian de Wet – “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 and 2),” “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”

Matt Dessero – “Jupiter Ascending,” “Divergent”

Deak Ferrand – “By the Sea,” “Lucy”

Ronald Frankel – “Gods of Egypt,” “Riddick”

John Gibson – “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” “Snow White and the Huntsman”

Martin Hill – “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2,” “Furious Seven”

Bruce L. Holcomb – “Ant-Man,” “Avengers: Age of Ultron”

Andrew Jackson – “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”

Matthew Jacobs – “Gods of Egypt,” “Deliver Us from Evil”

Anders Langlands – “The Martian,” “X-Men: Days of Future Past”

Seth Maury – “Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb,” “Maleficent”

Rich McBride – “The Revenant,” “Gravity”

Kelvin McIlwain – “Furious Seven,” “Snow White and the Huntsman”

Paul Norris – “Ex Machina,” “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation”

Dan Oliver – “Gods of Egypt,” “Mad Max: Fury Road”

Edward M. Pasquarello – “Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension,” “Tomorrowland”

Betsy Paterson – “The Hunger Games,” “The Incredible Hulk”

Matthew Shumway – “The Revenant,” “Life of Pi”

Jason Smith – “The Revenant,” “Super 8”

Kevin Andrew Smith – “Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” “Krampus”

Simone Kraus Townsend – “Ant-Man,” “Avengers: Age of Ultron”

Stefano Trivelli – “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “Pan”

Adam Valdez – “Maleficent,” “World War Z”

David Vickery – “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation,” “Fast & Furious 6”

Steven Warner – “The Brothers Grimsby,” “The Martian”

Andrew Whitehurst – “Ex Machina,” “Paddington”

Andy Williams – “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Fury”

Tom Wood – “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “The Last Witch Hunter”

Writers 

Jonathan Aibel – “Kung Fu Panda” series, “Monsters vs Aliens”

Sherman Alexie – “The Business of Fancydancing,” “Smoke Signals”

Glenn Berger – “Kung Fu Panda” series, “Monsters vs Aliens”

Andrea Berloff – “Straight Outta Compton,” “World Trade Center”

Vera Blasi – “Tortilla Soup,” “Woman on Top”

Ryan Coogler* – “Creed,” “Fruitvale Station”

Destin Daniel Cretton – “Short Term 12,” “I Am Not a Hipster”

Emma Donoghue – “Room”

Tina Fey – “Mean Girls”

Efthimis Filippou – “The Lobster,” “Dogtooth”

Jennifer Flackett-Levin – “Little Manhattan,” “Wimbledon”

Ryan Fleck – “Mississippi Grind,” “Half Nelson”

Alex Garland – “Ex Machina,” “28 Days Later”

Drew Goddard – “The Martian,” “Cloverfield”

Ciro Guerra* – “Embrace of the Serpent,” “The Wind Journeys”

Mia Hansen-Løve* – “Eden,” “The Father of My Children”

Marielle Heller* – “The Diary of a Teenage Girl”

David Henry Hwang – “Possession,” “Golden Gate”

O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson* – “The Players Club,” “Friday”

Jia Zhangke – “Mountains May Depart,” “Still Life”

Miranda July – “The Future,” “Me and You and Everyone We Know”

Laeta Kalogridis – “Terminator Genisys,” “Shutter Island”

Naomi Kawase* – “Still the Water,” “Firefly”

Richard Kelly – “Domino,” “Donnie Darko”

Takeshi Kitano – “Outrage,” “Kikujiro”

Hirokazu Koreeda – “Like Father, Like Son,” “Nobody Knows”

Yorgos Lanthimos – “The Lobster,” “Dogtooth”

Lee Chang-dong – “Poetry,” “Oasis”

Sebastián Lelio – “Gloria,” “Navidad”

Mark Levin – “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” “Nim’s Island”

Tobias Lindholm* – “A War,” “The Hunt”

Adam McKay* – “The Big Short,” “The Other Guys”

Rebecca Miller* – “Maggie’s Plan,” “The Ballad of Jack and Rose”

Abi Morgan – “Suffragette,” “The Iron Lady”

Cristian Mungiu* – “Beyond the Hills,” “Occident”

Phyllis Nagy – “Carol”

László Nemes* – “Son of Saul”

Park Chan-wook* – “Thirst,” “Oldboy”

Charles Randolph – “The Big Short,” “The Life of David Gale”

Carlos Reygadas – “Silent Light,” “Battle in Heaven”

Clara Royer – “Son of Saul”

Misan Sagay – “Belle,” “The Secret Laughter of Women”

Lorene Scafaria – “The Meddler,” “Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist”

Josh Singer – “Spotlight,” “The Fifth Estate”

Keenan Ivory Wayans* – “White Chicks,” “A Low Down Dirty Shame”

Alice Winocour – “Mustang,” “Home”

Members-at-Large

Tina Anderson

M. James Arnett

Dana Belcastro

Schawn Belston

Katherine Beyda

Lynwen Brennan

Camille Cellucci

Annie Chang

Yolanda T. Cochran

Gary Combs

Jenny Fulle

Theodore E. Gluck

Hal H. Haenel

Ramzi Haidamus

Eunice Huthart

Jeff Imada

Stephanie A. Ito

Mike Knobloch

Ravi D. Mehta

Sunny Park

Manny Perry

Ana Maria Quintana

Nancy St. John

Philip Steuer

Keith Woulard

Susan Zwerman

Associates

Adriana Alberghetti

Michelle Bohan

David Bugliari

John Campisi

Esther Chang

Maha Dakhil

David DeCamillo

Jerome Duboz

Helen du Toit

Jeff Gorin

Julie Huntsinger

Tracey R. Jacobs

Adam J. Kanter

Craig Kestel

Franklin Leonard

Betsy A. McLane

Cameron Mitchell

Andrea Nelson Meigs

Emanuel Nunez

Joanelle Romero

Rena Ronson

Lara Sackett

Carin Sage

Phillip Sun

Joanne Roberts Wiles

Warren Zavala

Click here for the Lia Chang Articles Archive and here for the Lia Chang Photography Website.

Lia Chang. Photo by Garth Kravits

Lia Chang is an actor, a multi-media content producer and co-founder of Bev’s Girl Films, making films that foster inclusion and diversity on both sides of the camera. Bev’s Girl Films’ debut short film, Hide and Seek was a top ten film in the Asian American Film Lab’s 2015 72 Hour Shootout Filmmaking Competition, and she received a Best Actress nomination. BGF collaborates with and produces multi-media content for artists, actors, designers, theatrical productions, composers,  musicians and corporations. Lia is also an internationally published and exhibited photographer, a multi-platform journalist, and a publicist. Lia has appeared in the films Wolf, New Jack City, A Kiss Before Dying, King of New York, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Dragon, Taxman and Hide and Seek. She is profiled in Examiner.com, Jade Magazine and Playbill.com.

Justin Lin’s Interpretations Short Film Contest for Asian American Filmmakers Extends Submission Deadline to July 15

By popular demand, the deadline to submit a short film to Interpretations and a chance to direct a project produced by STAR TREK BEYOND director Justin Lin has been extended to July 15, 2016.

YouoffendmeYouoffendmyfamily.com (YOMYOMF), the blog and entertainment website devoted to Asian American culture founded by Hollywood director Justin Lin (BETTER LUCK TOMORROW, FAST AND FURIOUS series, STAR TREK BEYOND) has launched the second edition of the highly successful INTERPRETATIONS Initiative that was previously held in 2010 to find the next generation of Asian American filmmakers. Comcast and NBCUniversal are lead sponsors of the initiative.

Click here for the contest details.

The official call for entries began March 31st at CAAMFest and the deadline has been extended until July 15th at 11:59 PM PST. Judging will commence in July and August with the announcement of the Top 15 on September 6, with online voting kicking off that day through October 6. The final 3 winners will be announced online on October 10 and they will be invited to attend the NBCUniversal Short Film Festival on October 19 at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles. Participants must be a resident of the United States of America and at least 13 years old.

What is Interpretations?
INTERPRETATIONS is a way of encouraging aspiring filmmakers to develop their own original and unique voice. All participants will “interpret” a four line script, and can produce and shoot it any way they wish. The only caveat is that the lines are static and must be in that order and the actual film itself is no more than 3 minutes long. Therefore, everyone is shooting their films from the same material and leveling the playing field in a way that traditional filmmaking competitions cannot. Three shorts will be selected from the entries and these winning filmmakers will have an opportunity to produce a project for one of the Comcast or NBCUniversal platforms under the mentorship of Justin Lin and other industry professionals.

The first Interpretations Initiative kicked off in the spring of 2010 with nine commissioned shorts by the likes of YouTube stars Wong Fu Productions, Danny Pudi (NBC’s COMMUNITY), Far East Movement, and other industry professionals, to showcase the varied interpretations of the same script. In the end, over 275 shorts were submitted online and was whittled down to five winners.

Justin Lin. Photo by Lia Chang

“The first Interpretations Initiative was such a success that I am very excited to be launching it again and with a stronger fortitude to really make this more than just a contest but an opportunity to actually incubate potential careers for budding filmmakers.” says YOMYOMF founder Justin Lin, who is currently in post-production on his latest tentpole film, STAR TREK BEYOND (coming out this July). “Interpretations 2016 is a part of the bigger picture of YOMYOMF 2.0, where we want to establish and nurture an Asian American creative community of content creators and enthusiasts where ideas and collaboration is exchanged regularly and we can see what projects we can develop with emerging talent. I never had something like YOMYOMF when I first started my career. It’s an exciting time to be an emerging filmmaker.”

David Henry Hwang. Photo by Lia Chang

For this edition of Interpretations, the 4-line script was written by Tony Award winning playwright and screenwriter David Henry Hwang  (M BUTTERFLY, CHINGLISH, Showtime’s THE AFFAIR). “It’s not as easy as one would think to just come up with 4 lines of dialogue.” says Hwang. “The script needs to be broad and fluid enough so that one director could craft a comedy from it, another a speculative fiction story, another an action film, another an experimental work of animation, and so on.”

Here’s this year’s four-line script:
Don’t do that.
Of course.
I have my doubts.
What is it?

As lead sponsors for this year’s Interpretations Initiative, Comcast and NBCUniversal intend to support new talent and discover new opportunities for various elements of Comcast and NBCUniversal.

“We are always looking out for new talent and Interpretations is a fun and unique way to find these voices.” says Karen Horne, Senior Vice President of Programming Talent Development & Inclusion at NBCUniversal Television.” I am also honored to have Interpretations bookmarked with the launch at CAAMFest and ending in October at the NBCUniversal Short Film Festival, where we will present the final winning shorts.”

“Interpretations is a great way to form a community of Asian American content creators and filmmakers. We look forward to providing a platform that highlights this community by showcasing the short films on Xfinity Asia and Xfinity On Demand,” says Javier Garcia, Vice President and General Manager for Multicultural Consumer Services at Comcast.

“I am honored to be partnering with Comcast and NBCUniversal,” says Justin Lin. “We have the same like-minded goal to make Interpretations a scalable program that will help us identify emerging talent and work with them in sustainable way.”

And check out the winners and highlights from Interpretations 1.0 here. And if you want a refresher:

Click here for the Lia Chang Articles Archive and here for the Lia Chang Photography Website.

Lia Chang. Photo by Garth Kravits

Lia Chang is an actor, a multi-media content producer and co-founder of Bev’s Girl Films, making films that foster inclusion and diversity on both sides of the camera. Bev’s Girl Films’ debut short film, Hide and Seek was a top ten film in the Asian American Film Lab’s 2015 72 Hour Shootout Filmmaking Competition, and she received a Best Actress nomination. BGF collaborates with and produces multi-media content for artists, actors, designers, theatrical productions, composers,  musicians and corporations. Lia is also an internationally published and exhibited photographer, a multi-platform journalist, and a publicist. Lia has appeared in the films Wolf, New Jack City, A Kiss Before Dying, King of New York, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Dragon, Taxman and Hide and Seek. She is profiled in Examiner.com, Jade Magazine and Playbill.com.

Q & A with Emmanuel “Manny” Brown, Actor, Award-Winning Fight Choreographer and Champion Martial Artist

Emmanuel “Manny” Brown. Photo by Lia Chang

Last November,  Emmanuel “Manny” Brown nabbed two awards at The Urban Action Showcase International Action Film Festival for his fight choreography on the short film Junkyard a.k.a. Stuntmen – a   2015 UAS IAFF Award for Best Action Sequence and 2015 UAS IAFF Award for Best Action in the 2 Min Warning Action Scene Contest.

The UASE also celebrated the 30th anniversary of my first film, The Last Dragon last year, and will continues it’s Diversity in Action initiative of honing the past, present and future multicultural achievements in the genre of Heroes, by celebrating my second film, the 30th Anniversary of the Martial Arts Cult Classics Big Trouble in Little China,  in which I played a Wing Kong Guard.

Lia Chang and Donna Noguchi in John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China (1986).

The Urban Action Showcase International Action Film Festival (UAS IAFF) will screen both competition films as well as showcase main stream action cinema over two days, November 11-12, 2016, in New York. Click here for more information.

2015 Big Trouble in Little China Cast Reunion

Emmanuel “Manny ” Brown

In addition to being an award-winning fight choreographer, Brown is also an actor, a champion martial artist,  an acrobat/tricker, a singer, and a dancer. He played Spider-man and Electro in the original Broadway cast of Spider-man:Turn Off the Dark, and has worked on the TV shows  “Elementary”(CBS), “Taxi Brooklyn” (NBC),  and “Forever” (ABC).

Cole Horibe, Emmanuel “Manny” Brown, Clifton Duncan and Jon Rua in David Henry Hwang’s “Kung Fu.” Photo by Lia Chang

I first met Brown in 2014 at The Pershing Square Signature Center, where he was acting in and serving as fight director for Signature Theatre Company’s Off-Broadway world premiere of David Henry Hwang’s Kung Fu, and subsequently garnered a 2014 Village Voice Obie Award for his fight direction.

Emmanuel “Manny” Brown takes a bow at the curtain call of David Henry Hwang’s “Kung Fu” at The Pershing Square Signature Center in New York on February 24, 2014. Photo by Lia Chang

Photos: Backstage and Opening Night of Signature’s World Premiere of David Henry Hwang’s ‘Kung Fu’ 

Branden Jacob-Jenkins’ Appropriate, Lisa Kron’s Fun Home, Sonya Tayeh, Emmanuel Brown, Mia Katigbak, K. Todd Freeman, John Earl Jelks Among 2014 Obie Award Winners

His other Off-Broadway credits include Charles Mee’s Big Love (Signature Theatre Company); Sweet Science Suite (BAM); and the Classical Theatre of Harlem productions of The Tempest as Stefano and Romeo N Juliet as Tybalt. In addition to Kung Fu, he has served as fight director for Sweet Science Suite, Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon! (La Mama), Coin Toss, World’s Finest, Under the Gun. His regional theater credits include Sucker Punch  (Studio Theatre of DC) and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (La Jolla Playhouse). Brown holds a B.F.A from the University of Florida.

Bobby Steggert, Emmanuel Brown and Ryan-James Hatanaka. Photo by T Charles Erickson.

Below is my interview with Manny about his favorite martial arts films, his latest accolades and what he’s been up to lately.

Emmanuel “Manny” Brown. Photo courtesy of Emmanuel “Manny” Brown/Facebook

Lia: How old were you when you developed your love of acting and martial arts?
Manny: I developed a love for martial arts after my first class as a 10-year-old. I had an appreciation for acting all my life and did some acting classes in middle school and high school, but I decided to get serious about it when I was 19.

Lia: The 2016 Urban Action Showcase will celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Big Trouble in Little China in November this year.  Does this mean anything to you?
Manny: Absolutely. Big Trouble in Little China was one of the first movies featuring the martial arts that I had ever seen because I have an older sister who was obsessed with it. It is a part of my youth.

Lia: What other films have inspired you? 
Manny: Rumble in the Bronx, The Last Dragon, Lady Dragon, Legend of Drunken Master, Enter the Dragon, Fist of Legend, 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Fearless Hyena, Jackie Chan’s First Strike.

Lia: What did it mean for you to receive these awards?
Manny: These awards mean that I am one step closer to doing fight choreography on film and TV and that all of my studying of film fighting is paying off.

Emmanuel “Manny” Brown. Photo by Ryu Ronnie Wright

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Lia: How did you get hired for Spider-Man? What was your experience of working on the production and being on Broadway?
Manny: I got cast in Spider-man by attending an open dance call. I had a great experience working on the show despite all of the controversy/problems. Being on Broadway is an experience like no other. Such great, receptive and enthusiastic audiences.

Cast members of the Broadway production of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.” Dale May for Time Out New York

Lia: What kind of adjustments do you make working on your fight direction on film, on television and on stage? 
Manny: I usually find myself having to make more adjustments when working on stage, as I can’t rely on editing and complete control of audience sightlines. I always try to adjust to my performers abilities to make them look as good as possible. On stage I have to work harder to make each technique “sell” to the audience.

Ari Loeb and Cole Horibe in David Henry Hwang’s “Kung Fu”. Photo by Joan Marcus

Lia: Do you have a preferred medium?
Manny: I don’t have a preferred medium as each poses its own set of challenges.

The cast and creative team of David Henry Hwang’s celebrate at their opening night party at Signature Theatre Company’s Pershing Square Signature Center in New York on February 24, 2014. Photo by Lia Chang

Lia: Tell me more about the Urban Action Showcase.
Manny: The Showcase has been terrific both times I attended. It has introduced me to other action artists and icons I wouldn’t have had access to otherwise. Demetrius (Demetrius Angelo is the Founder and Executive Producer of the Urban Action Showcase and Expo) has done a lot to provide a platform for us, indie filmmakers and I am grateful for that.

Lia: Who have you been inspired by in the martial arts world? 
Manny: Jackie Chan, Don Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock, Richard Norton, Billy Blanks, Ted Jan Roberts, Bruce Lee, Jim Kelly.

Lia: Have you had mentors? If so, who have they been and in what capacity have you worked with them?
Manny: My martial arts teachers – Allen Abdul, Dean Butler, Dale Herring). My acting teachers – Harry O’Reilly, Mikell Pinkney, David Shelton). Also John Chung, who coached the karate team I competed for, and the late Fred Ho.

Sheldon Best, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Emmanuel “Manny” Brown and Clifton Duncan at the opening night party for David Henry Hwang’s “Kung Fu” at Pershing Square Signature Center in New York on February 24, 2014. Photo by Lia Chang

Lia: Who have been your acting role models?
Manny: Jeffrey Wright, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Martin Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Sidney Poitier.

Emmanuel “Manny” Brown in flight as a Knicks Acroback Tumblers at Madison Square Garden. Photo: Facebook

Lia: What did you do during your time with the New York Knicks and the New York Liberty at Madison Square Garden?
Manny: I was an acrobat for the Knicks Acroback Tumblers and a dancer/acrobat/cheerleader for the Liberty. It was a cool job working at the Garden.

Sheldon Best and Emmanuel Brown in Studio Theatre’s production of Roy Williams SUCKERPUNCH (2012). Photo: Scott Suchman.

Lia: What have been your three favorite projects?
Manny: A play I did in Washington DC called Sucker Punch, the episode of “Blindspot” that I was in, and the play Kung Fu I worked on in NY.

Lia: What are you working on now?
Manny: I am planning on working on a production this Summer with Classical Theatre of Harlem.

Lia: A fun fact that nobody know about you.
Manny: I am a cinephile and and learn how to say certain things in other languages from watching foreign films.

The 2016 Urban Action Showcase International Action Film Festival Featuring the Cinemax Action Short Film Competition Call for Entries is Now Open! Submit Now through Oct. 1 2016. Over $100,000 in Cash, Distribution and Prize Opportunities! Click here for details.

Lia Chang. Photo by Garth Kravits

Lia Chang is an award-winning filmmaker, a Best Actress nominee, a photographer, and an award-winning multi-platform journalist. Lia has appeared in the films Wolf, New Jack City, A Kiss Before Dying, King of New York, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Dragon, Taxman and Hide and Seek, which will screen at the Disorient Film Festival in Eugene Oregon in April. She is profiled in Examiner.com, Jade Magazine and Playbill.com.

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Justin Lin’s Short Film Contest for Asian American Filmmakers; David Henry Hwang Pens Script

YouoffendmeYouoffendmyfamily.com (YOMYOMF), the blog and entertainment website devoted to Asian American culture founded by Hollywood director Justin Lin (BETTER LUCK TOMORROW, FAST AND FURIOUS series, STAR TREK BEYOND) has launched the second edition of the highly successful INTERPRETATIONS Initiative that was previously held in 2010 to find the next generation of Asian American filmmakers. Comcast and NBCUniversal are lead sponsors of the initiative.

Click here for the contest details.

What is Interpretations?
INTERPRETATIONS is a way of encouraging aspiring filmmakers to develop their own original and unique voice. All participants will “interpret” a four line script, and can produce and shoot it any way they wish. The only caveat is that the lines are static and must be in that order and the actual film itself is no more than 3 minutes long. Therefore, everyone is shooting their films from the same material and leveling the playing field in a way that traditional filmmaking competitions cannot. Three shorts will be selected from the entries and these winning filmmakers will have an opportunity to produce a project for one of the Comcast or NBCUniversal platforms under the mentorship of Justin Lin and other industry professionals.

The first Interpretations Initiative kicked off in the spring of 2010 with nine commissioned shorts by the likes of YouTube stars Wong Fu Productions, Danny Pudi (NBC’s COMMUNITY), Far East Movement, and other industry professionals, to showcase the varied interpretations of the same script. In the end, over 275 shorts were submitted online and was whittled down to five winners.

Justin Lin. Photo by Lia Chang

“The first Interpretations Initiative was such a success that I am very excited to be launching it again and with a stronger fortitude to really make this more than just a contest but an opportunity to actually incubate potential careers for budding filmmakers.” says YOMYOMF founder Justin Lin, who is currently in post-production on his latest tentpole film, STAR TREK BEYOND (coming out this July). “Interpretations 2016 is a part of the bigger picture of YOMYOMF 2.0, where we want to establish and nurture an Asian American creative community of content creators and enthusiasts where ideas and collaboration is exchanged regularly and we can see what projects we can develop with emerging talent. I never had something like YOMYOMF when I first started my career. It’s an exciting time to be an emerging filmmaker.”

David Henry Hwang. Photo by Lia Chang

For this edition of Interpretations, the 4-line script was written by Tony Award winning playwright and screenwriter David Henry Hwang  (M BUTTERFLY, CHINGLISH, Showtime’s THE AFFAIR). “It’s not as easy as one would think to just come up with 4 lines of dialogue.” says Hwang. “The script needs to be broad and fluid enough so that one director could craft a comedy from it, another a speculative fiction story, another an action film, another an experimental work of animation, and so on.”

Here’s this year’s four-line script:
Don’t do that.
Of course.
I have my doubts.
What is it?

As lead sponsors for this year’s Interpretations Initiative, Comcast and NBCUniversal intend to support new talent and discover new opportunities for various elements of Comcast and NBCUniversal.

“We are always looking out for new talent and Interpretations is a fun and unique way to find these voices.” says Karen Horne, Senior Vice President of Programming Talent Development & Inclusion at NBCUniversal Television.” I am also honored to have Interpretations bookmarked with the launch at CAAMFest and ending in October at the NBCUniversal Short Film Festival, where we will present the final winning shorts.”

“Interpretations is a great way to form a community of Asian American content creators and filmmakers. We look forward to providing a platform that highlights this community by showcasing the short films on Xfinity Asia and Xfinity On Demand,” says Javier Garcia, Vice President and General Manager for Multicultural Consumer Services at Comcast.

“I am honored to be partnering with Comcast and NBCUniversal,” says Justin Lin. “We have the same like-minded goal to make Interpretations a scalable program that will help us identify emerging talent and work with them in sustainable way.”

INTERPRETATIONS Timeline & Website
With the kick-off being held at this year’s CAAMFest, the official call for entries begins March 31 and ends on June 17. Judging will commence in July and August with the announcement of the Top 15 on September 6, with online voting kicking off that day through October 6. The final 3 winners will be announced online on October 10 and they will be invited to attend the NBCUniversal Short Film Festival on October 19 at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles. Participants must be a resident of the United States of America and at least 13 years old.

Launch of Interpretations and YOMYOMF Presence at CAAMFest
Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) presents CAAMFest (formerly the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival) is the world’s largest showcase for new Asian American and Asian film, food and music programs, annually presenting over 100 works in San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland. This year’s festival will be held from March 10 – 20, 2016.

YOMYOMF Presents: A Brave New Digital World
YOMYOMF will host a FREE panel discussion on Sunday, March 13, 1:30pm at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. Here is a description of the panel:

With the success of digital platforms like Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu, 2016 will see a record number of new digital services looking to fund/distribute content from and for diverse communities. This year has already seen or will see the launch of SVOD/AVOD/OTT platforms including NBC Seeso, CBS All Access, WatchABC, Comic Con, Warner Brothers TV, Verizon Go90, Fullscreen, YouTube Red, Seriously, Rated Red and others. In addition, filmmaker Justin Lin (FAST & FURIOUS franchise, upcoming STAR TREK BEYOND) and YOMYOMF will be launching Interpretations 2.0 with Comcast and NBCUniversal to discover the next wave of promising Asian Pacific American filmmakers. As traditional opportunities dry up for filmmakers, could digital become the new indie cinema? YOMYOMF talks to key players from the industry providing outlets for this new and sustainable content about the opportunities for Asian Pacific American content creators in the brave, new digital world.

Finalized industry panelists for this seminar are:

● Moderated by Anderson Le (Hawaii International Film Festival, YOMYOMF)

● Philip W Chung, Creative Director, YOMYOMF

● Karen Horne, Senior VP, Programming Talent Development & Inclusion, NBC Universal

● Pradeepa Jeeva, Development Director, Machinima

● Gary King, Jr, New Media content & Alternative Programming, Disney Digital

THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT 10th Anniversary Screening
Critically acclaimed for its eye-popping, testosterone-filled driving sequences, the third installment in THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS series is considered its biggest departure in theme and style. Troubled American teen Sean (Lucas Black) comes to Tokyo to live with his father and avoid punishment back home for his thrill-seeking ways. Sean befriends Twinkie (Shad Moss), who introduces him to Tokyo’s underground street racing scene and the dangerous world of drifting. Sean’s life becomes even more complicated as he learns how to master drifting from Han (Sung Kang) and challenges rival Takashi (Brian Tee) for the racing crown as he falls for Takashi’s girlfriend, Neela (Nathalie Kelley).

The 10th-anniversary celebration screening and Justin Lin’s return to CAAMFest, after showing BETTER LUCK TOMORROW in 2002, as part of the Interpretations Initiative kick-off and YOMYOMF is on on March 13, 9:30PM, at San Francisco’s new Alamo Drafthouse. Special guests from the film will be in attendance!

And check out the winners and highlights from Interpretations 1.0 here. And if you want a refresher:

Lia Chang. Photo by Garth Kravits

Lia Chang is an award-winning filmmaker, a Best Actress nominee, a photographer, and an award-winning multi-platform journalist. Lia has appeared in the films Wolf, New Jack City, A Kiss Before Dying, King of New York, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Dragon, Taxman and Hide and Seek, which will screen at The Women’s Film Festival 2016 in Philadelphia on March 13th and the Disorient Film Festival in Eugene Oregon in April. She is profiled in Examiner.com, Jade Magazine and Playbill.com.

Click here for the Lia Chang Articles Archive and here for the Lia Chang Photography Website.

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Behind the Scenes of the Asian American Film Lab’s 72 Hour Shootout with Lia Chang, Garth Kravits, Evan Daves and Alicia Manns in HIDE AND SEEK

Alicia Manns, Lia Chang and Garth Kravits on the set of Hide and Seek, A GK film production, as part of the Asian American Film Lab’s ‪#‎72HRSO‬ filmmaking competition. Photo by Evan Daves ‪#‎twofaces‬

I took the plunge into indie filmmaking with my producing partner Garth Kravits of GK films, an actor, singer, composer and musician, as part of the Asian American Film Lab’s 11th Annual 72 Hour Shootout filmmaking competition. This year’s theme is Two Faces and our film is called Hide and Seek. Also featured in the cast are Evan Daves and Alicia Manns.

Garth Kravits and Evan Daves on the set of HIDE AND SEEK on June 5, 2015. Photo by Lia Chang

The Shootout is a worldwide filmmaking competition celebrating gender and ethnic diversity in film in which filmmaking teams are given a common theme at the start and have 72 hours to write, shoot, edit, and complete short films up to five minutes in length.

Garth Kravits and Alicia Manns on the set of HIDE AND SEEK on June 5, 2015. Photo by Lia Chang

Director Bertha Bay-Sa Pan at the 72 Hour Shootout Launch party at The Korea Society in New York on June 4, 2015. Photo by Lia Chang

Teams promote gender and ethnic diversity in media and compete for cash and prizes and the chance to have their films screened at the prestigious Asian American International Film Festival, the only festival of its kind on the East Coast, as well as at the Asians on Film Festival in Los Angeles, California. Judges include Emmy nominated director Rodrigo Garcia, ABC Executive Director of Casting Marci Phillips, playwright David Henry Hwang, agent David Elliott, stuntman Lane Leavitt, and director Bertha Bay-Sa Pan.  Several of the judges were in attendance at the Launch Party to witness the start of the competition and wish the filmmakers luck.

David Henry Hwang. Photo by Lia Chang

THE 2015 72 Hour Shootout world premiere and wrap party is on Saturday, July 25, 2015, at Cinema Village East, 181-189 2nd Avenue in New York at 2:00 PM during The Asian American International Film Festival.

Check out the world premiere of the top ten most incredible films of the 2015 72 Hour Shootout! Enjoy prizes from sponsors, network and collaborate with fellow artists.

Asian American Film Lab president Jennifer Betit Yen and 72 Hour Shootout coordinator Youn Jung Kim at the 72 Hour Shootout Launch party at The Korea Society in New York on June 4, 2015. Photo by Lia Chang

Find out who won the awards, including mentorships from NBC, ABC and so much more! Tickets to the screening must be purchased through Asian CineVision. Click here to buy tickets.

The Wrap Party is for ALL who participated in this year’s Shootout and will be an extravaganza of prizes and celebration. The Wrap Party is free for REGISTERED Shootout competitors only (registration automatically RSVPs you). All others can RSVP in June. Of course, it’s not really a wrap, because the winning films will go on to screen at many other festivals and on AAFL TV!

Film Lab management team- Cecilia Mejia (Unfinished Works), Daryl King (Secretary and Board Member), Jennifer Betit Yen (President and Board Member, founder of AAFL TV Production Arm), Nick Sakai (Industry Spotlight), Youn Jung Kim (2015 72 Hour Shootout Coordinator), Edwin Wong (Board Member), director Berth Bay-Sa Pan and guests at the 72 Hour Shootout Launch party at The Korea Society in New York on June 4, 2015. Photo by Lia Chang

About the Asian American Film Lab
The Film Lab is a non-profit 501(c)(3) that promotes ethnic and gender diversity through outreach, education and production.  The Film Lab provides free or low cost programming ranging from screenwriting workshops to panels to seminars to screenings.  The Film Lab produces the television series “Film Lab Presents” and a wide variety of online content on AAFL TV. The Film Lab management team consists of Jennifer Betit Yen (President and Board Member, founder of AAFL TV Production Arm), Huseina Sulaimanee (Treasurer and Volunteer), Daryl King (Secretary and Board Member), Cecilia Mejia (Unfinished Works), Youn Jung Kim (2015 72 Hour Shootout Coordinator), Nick Sakai (Industry Spotlight), along with a dedicated Board, interns and event volunteers. Board members include James Kyson, Ed Wong and Aaron Woolfolk, among others.

Lia Chang is an actor, a performance and fine art botanical photographer, and an award-winning multi-platform journalist. Lia has appeared in the films Wolf, New Jack City, A Kiss Before Dying, King of New York, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Dragon and Taxman. She has guest starred on “One Life to Live,” “As the World Turns,” and “New York Undercover.” She is profiled in Jade Magazine.

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