Michael Kang is a Korean American filmmaker based in New York. he is post-production with his feature filmn debut “The Motel” which is being produced by the Indie veteran director Miguel Arteta (“Chuck & Buck”, “The Good Girl”). Michael was a fellow in the Sundance Filmmakers Lab, 2002. “The Motel” is the recipient of the Sundance/NHK International Filmmaker’s Award, 2003. In 2002 he received the Geri Ashur Award in Screenwriting through the New York Foundation for the Arts. He also won the 24th Annual Asian American international Film Fetival Screenplay Competition, 2001. Michael recently completed directing Second Unit work for Wayne Wang on the upcoming film, “Because of Winn-Dixie” (where he got to direct a live bear). His short film “A Waiter Tomorrow” recieved both the FilmCore Post Production Grant, 1998 and the Freaky Film Festival, Audience Choice Award 1999. his film “Japanese Cowboy” was a co-recipient of the Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant, 199 and the Special JuryPrize at Film Fest New Haven, 2000. In addition, you may recognize him as the “Delivery Guy” alongside playwright David henry Hwang in the short film “Asian Pride Porn” by Greg Pak (“Robot Stories”).

Fulfilling a unique role at McCann San Francisco, Rob oversee both Strategic Planning and Media, ensuring the strategic integration of messaging and placement throughout all points of customer contact. Rob works across a range of global, national and regional businesses. Prior to McCann, Rob spent five years as Partner/Strategic Planning Director for the San Francisco office of Leagas Delaney, where he first initiated the Strategic Planning/Media oversight role. he also spent seven years at Goodby, Silverstein &  Partners where he ran Media Planning on all accounts. Rob’s career started in the Media department of Grey Advertising in New York. Rob graduate with a BA in Broadcasting and Film from Boston University.

Michael gould is Chief Marketing Officer for McCann Worldgroup, San Francisco, a family off McCann agencies that includes McCann erickson (Advertising), MRM Partners (McCann Relationship Marketing), and FutureBrand (Branding). Michael began his career as a copywriter, became a creative director, and finally opened his own advertising agency in 1989. Ten years later, he sold the agency to McCann Erickson, and maintained his position as CMO of MRM Gould (now MRM Partners, San Francisco), through December 2003. Now, as CMO of Worldgroup, San Francisco, micahel plays a variety of roles within the larger agency group: business development, culture development, strategic development and new product development. A lifelong creative guy, Michael is also a musician and composer, and has long been fascinated with film, both on the investment and creative end. Mike graduated witha BA in Aesthetics from the University of California at Santa Cruz. In other words, he majored in “taste,” which he feels, may be the perfect pre-requisite for an artistic contest judge. Who would’ve thought it?

Fong began working with the independant distributor Strand Releasing before moving to New York in 1997 to work with killer Films on “Happiness” and “I’m Losing You”, woody Allen on “Sweet and Lowdown”, and IFC Filmes. In 2001, he joinedproducer Susan Stover (“High Art”, “Laurel Canyon”) at HeadQuarters, an independant film production company in new York, Fong was invovled in the production of Brad Anderson’s “Happy Accidents”, produced “Upheavel” starrring Frances mcDormand, and was the Associate Producer of Patrick Stettner’s “The Business of Strangers.” HeadQuarters is currently developing “In Between Days,” the feature film debut from writer/director Hyoe Yamamoto (“A Glance Apart”) starring Ludivine Sagnier and Tadanobu Asano.

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Leader: Henry H. Woo