Kit Hui
Eric Lin
Cherry Montejo |
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Kit Hui
Born in Hong Kong, Kit Hui received her MFA from Columbia University's Graduate Film Program. Her previous works include, Missing (Official Competition, Cannes 2005); A Rainy Day (Top Prize, China-American Film Festival; Best Cinematography, Buenos Aires International Student Film Festival). In 2006, her screenplay A Breath Away was selected for the Cannes Cinéfondation Residency, the Hong Kong Asian Film Financial Forum (HAF) and the Sundance Writer's Lab and Director's Lab. She has recently finished her debut feature, Fog, a recipient of the Sundance Annenberg Grant. She is currently developing her new project A Borrowed Life which was selected by Pusan Promotion Plan 2009.
Eric Lin
Eric Lin is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film Program. Music Palace, his Student Academy Award nominated short documentary, has screened at numerous film festivals worldwide, including the prestigious New Directors/New Films Festival in New York, the Telluride Film Festival, the Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival and is now airing on the Independent Film Channel. His latest narrative short film, What Remains, was awarded the Caucus Foundation Student Production Grant as well as the Warner Bros. Pictures Film Production Award, and is busy traveling among the film festival circuit. In 2003, he won the Asian American International Screenplay Competition for his script, Kilgore. His work has received support from the C.V. Starr Institute, the Oppenheimer New Filmmakers Grant, and New York State Council for the Arts. In addition to directing high-end industrials and broadcast promos, he has edited commercials and documentaries for clients such as Lavazza Espresso, Mattel, American Express, and A&E Television. He recently won the Vague Production Award for his feature film project, Why We Pull The Trigger.
Cherry Montejo
Cherry Montejo graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and moved to New York where she first worked with directors Barbara Kopple and Joseph Lovett. She has been involved in post-production for several projects including 1 Love , a documentary on basketball by Academy Award-winning director Leon Gast. She has worked as a production manager for several broadcast shows including MTV's Chat the Planet / Choose or Lose, a live satellite discussion between teens from the US and Baghdad; Watchdog , a political talk show pilot from WorldLink; and His Holiness the Dali Lama at Town Hall, also from WorldLink. She served as the associate producer for ABC's 50th Anniversary Special, The Situation, a feature documentary from Concord Media, and Cosmopolitan, a film by Nisha Ganatra starring Carol Kane and Roshan Seth. In addition, she has worked on the production of several feature films including Palindromes, directed by Todd Solondz, starring Ellen Barkin and Jennifer Jason Leigh; and Lonesome Jim, directed by Steve Buscemi and starring Liv Tyler and Casey Affleck. She recently produced missing, a 35mm short film directed by Kit Hui which was an official selection at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Competition. She is currently developing Kit Hui's A Breath Away, which was selected for the 2005 Tribeca All Access Connect, 2006 Sundance Writer's Lab and 2006 Cannes Festival Residence.
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