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Catherine T. Nguyen is an award-winning director/producer based in California. Her passion for storytelling drew her to the NYU Tisch School of Arts, where she graduated cum laude with a B.F.A in Film and Television and a minor in Business of Entertainment, Media and Technology at Stern. Leveraging her diverse suite of skills, Catherine served as a producer for CHICKEN, which world premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival. WHITE BUTTERFLY is her directorial debut which has screened at festivals around the world, including the Hawai’i International Film Festival, CAAMFest (AT&T InspirASIAN Undergraduate Winner), Yale Student Film Festival (Best Director Winner), among others. She is currently in development for her next short film, COLORS OF THE SKY'S END, set to be shot in Vietnam in early 2025.

Parida Tantiwasadakran is a Thai-American writer-director whose films have premiered at multiple festivals around the world including Slamdance, Short Shorts & Asia, and the Chicago Children’s International Film Festival. Her Oscar-Qualifying film ”Young People, Old People & Nothing in Between" won Best Live Action Short at deadCenter Film Festival, Best Performance at both the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival and Nevada City Film Festival, Best Short Film for Children at interFilm KUKI Berlin, Special Jury Mention at the Busan International Childrens’ Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Short at the Hawai'i International Film Festival.

tao/s (Aaron & Winston Tao) are a Chinese-American writing and directing duo. Born to immigrant parents who divorced when they were less than a year old, they were primarily raised by their schizoaffective bipolar mother. Their work often highlights social issues featuring marginalized lower middle class families and explores themes of mental health, fractured families, and parentification from a humanistic lens. Their films have been recognized by almost every major ad festival in the world. “The Rabbit Hole,” picked up 4 Cannes Lions nominations and won silver in best direction at Cannes as well as Best Direction at AICP. It was named Ad of the Year in Charity at SHOTS and clinched gold at 1.4 for “On The Cusp of Greatness.” Their branded film, “Sleep Well, My Baby,” won silver at the Cannes Young Director Awards. Their other branded films, “Watching,” and “SuperMaarko,” won them an additional Cannes Young Director Award, the Webby Award for People’s Voice, as well as nominations for “Best Emerging Directors,” and “Best Narrative,” at One Screen. They are currently in development for their feature, GOODBYE, HURRICANE, an Academy Nicholls semifinalist and Black List x CAPE finalist. The brothers are repped by CAA and M88.

Kelly Yu is a Swedish-born, New Orleans raised, Chinese-American writer and director. Her work is driven by a deep fascination with finding humanity in the absurd, often through an "east-meets-west" lens. Her short films have screened at film festivals around the world, with her first short PLUM TOWN winning the Grand Jury Award at Boston Independent Film Festival, the NFFTY New Talent Award for 'Best Director Under 25," and premiering online on the renowned platform Short of the Week. Her second short film, ENDLING, was executive produced by Emmy award winning actress Lena Waithe and premiered at Tribeca June 2024. Kelly holds a B.F.A from the USC School of Cinematic Arts and is based in LA currently developing her debut feature film, ENDLING. She is represented by Underground and Weinstein Senior LLP.

Before attending USC, Thomas Percy Kim's short, SI, starring Ki Hong Lee (MAZE RUNNER) premiered at the 2020 LAAPFF before being acquired by HBO/Max. Since then, he has directed other shorts such as BUSAN, 1999, which won Best Narrative at the SFFilm Festival and BFI Future Film Festival, qualifying it for the 2023 Oscars. He is a TIFF x CJ Ent Fellow, Sundance Ignite Fellow, Blacklist Michael Collyer Finalist, Shorts to Feature Lab Fellow, and a Diverso Minority Report Fellow. He is currently in post-production for his debut feature, ISLE CHILD, based on SI.

Writer-director Andrew Thomas Huang crafts hybrid fantasy worlds and mythical dreamscapes. A Grammy-nominated music video director, Huang's collaborators include Bjork, FKA Twigs and Thom Yorke among others. His films have been commissioned by and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, The Sydney Opera House and the Museum of Contemporary Art, LA. Huang also directs for film and TV, including an episode of Terence Nance’s Random Acts of Flyness Season 2 on HBO. Inspired by his Chinese heritage, queer Asian mythology and folklore, Huang is in late development on his feature film TIGER GIRL which has received support from Film Independent, SFFILM, Cinereach and the Sundance Institute. Huang graduated with a degree in Fine Art and Animation from the University of Southern California. Check out more of his work in andrewthomashuang.com