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This project successfully raised its funding goal on October 1, 2011.
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Ben Wang, Director/Producer
Ben Wang is a Japanese-Chinese American documentary filmmaker who grew up in Sacramento and currently resides in Oakland, California. Wang is the Co-Director/Producer of the feature documentary AOKI, a film chronicling the life of Richard Aoki (1938-2009), a third-generation Japanese American who became one of the founding members of the Black Panther Party. Wang is the co-chair of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee, and co-edited “Other: an API Prisoners’ Anthology.” He currently works at Asian Health Services in Oakland.
Christine Kwon, Producer
Christine Kwon is the Managing Director of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival at the Center for Asian American Media. She graduated from UC San Diego, where she most notably assisted with Jean-Pierre Gorin’s tribute to film critic Manny Farber. With a focus on film programming and an interest in youth development, Christine initiated SFIAAFF’s Student Delegate Program in 2008, as well as the CAAMbassador program in 2010. She is also the Associate Producer of the feature film YES WE’RE OPEN, dir. Rich Wong.
Deann Borshay Liem, Executive Producer
Deann Borshay Liem has been working in the field of media for over twenty years. She is Producer, Director, and Writer for the Emmy Award-nominated First Person Plural and Co-Executive Producer for Spencer Nakasako’s Kelly Loves Tony and AKA Don Bonus. She served as Co-Producer for Special Circumstances, Executive in Charge for Blessed Is the Match, and Executive Producer for On Coal River. She was also the former Executive Director of the National Asian American Telecommunications Association. A Sundance Institute Fellow and a recipient of a Rockefeller Film/Video Fellowship, Deann’s latest film, In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee, had its broadcast premiere on PBS in September 2010.
