Kit Hui
Eric Lin
Cherry Montejo |
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Kit Hui
Kit Hui was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. She received her MFA from Columbia University's Graduate Film Program. Her thesis film, missing, was presented at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Competition and has screened at numerous film festivals worldwide. Her previous short film, A Rainy Day, won the top prize at the China-American Film Festival and the 2004 Best Cinematography award at the International Student Film Festival at Buenos Aires. In 2005, she was chosen to participate at the Berlinale Talent Campus. She recently completed work as associate producer and shooting director on Chinatown, a BBC documentary series set in London. She is currently developing her first feature screenplay, A Breath Away, which was selected for the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival All Access Connect program, the 2006 Sundance Writer's Lab and the 2006 Cannes Festival Résidence in Paris.
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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