Pamela Tom, Director/Producer: Pamela Tom is an independent producer and director whose critically acclaimed film Two Lies screened at numerous film festivals including the Sundance Film Festival, the Smithsonian Institution, and New Directors/New Films. It is distributed by Women Make Movies and aired on PBS stations KCET, WNET, and WGBH. Ms. Tom's documentary credits include the PBS prime time series Wired Science (Producer), the feature film, American Primitive (Executive Producer), the ABC special The Story of Mothers and Daughters (Senior Associate Producer),The PBS pilot Becoming the Buddha in LA (Field Producer), Voices of Nairobi (Producer/Director), and Pei-Lee: Portrait of a Chinatown Teenager (Director). Ms. Tom directed Sidney Poitier in a monologue to promote the original Showtime Network movie Mandela and deKlerk. She served as a development executive and freelance producer at KCET/Los Angeles and the Director of Diversity at Film Independent. Awards include the Walt Disney Writing Fellowship, The Edna and Yu Shan Han Award, and the Dorothy Arzner Award for Outstanding Woman Director. She received her BA with Honors from Brown University and her MFA in Theater, Film and Television from UCLA.

Gwen Wynne, Producer: Gwen Wynne is the producer, director, and writer of American Primitive, a feature film starring Tate Donovan (The OC) and Josh Peck (Drake and Josh). Ms. Wynne began her career on Broadway at Circle in the Square Theatre scouting for new plays. From there she co-founded and served for six years as Artistic Director of The No-Neck Monsters Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation. Her productions have been nominated for five Helen Hayes Awards. Having led fundraising campaigns for her theatrical productions that dealt with issues ranging from racism to homelessness to environmental destruction, Ms. Wynne secured funding from foundations throughout the country, including The National Endowment for the Arts, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Comic Relief, and The Rockefeller Foundation. Ms. Wynne is a partner with Pamela Tom in Apricot Films, LLC, a company whose mission is to create commercially successful films that express a strong and unique artistic and social vision. Ms. Wynne is a graduate of Brown University, where she received degrees in Literature & Society and Theatre Arts. She received her M.F.A. in Film at USC's School of Cinema-Television.

Linda Barry, Producer: Linda Barry is an Emmy Award winning producer of the independent film Fishbowl which was broadcast on PBS' Emmy Award winning series, "Independent Lens" in 2006. She co-produced the feature film Mango Kiss and four dramatic short films between 1999 and 2002. She is a graduate of Old Dominion University in Virginia, UCLA Film School's Producers Program and the 2004 Film Independent Producers Program.

Tamara Khalaf, Co-Producer: Tamara has been employed by the Disney Animation Studios for 13 years as a graphic artist.  She has designed exhibits and/or products for multiple Disney divisions from Imagineering to ABC to Consumer Products.   Tamara’s first book for the company, Disney’s Dogs, will be released this October 2008. Tamara’s producing experience includes having executive produced the short film Dreaming in Black & White, starring Malik Yoba, which won best short film at the 2003 Phoenix film festival.  Tamara also produced an AFI Director’s Workshop for Women short film, Shelly Figg

Shana Hagan, Cinematographer: Shana Hagan has over 35 film and TV credits to her name, including the Oscar and Emmy winning documentary BREATHING LESSONS, directed by Jessica Yu. Credits include the Sundance award-winning Showtime feature AFTER INNOCENCE, about prisoners exonerated through DNA evidence, Disney's WALT AND EL GRUPO and UB IWERKS: THE HAND BEHIND THE MOUSE, about the animator who created Mickey Mouse, THE LIVING MUSEUM, an HBO feature documentary about an art space dedicated to the work of the mentally ill, and HOMELAND, a documentary about four Lakota families on the Pine Ridge Reservation, which won the AFI Film Festival’s Audience Award for Best Documentary. Ms. Hagan’s work has appeared on HBO, Showtime, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, The Learning Channel, and in theaters. She is considered one of the top documentary cinematographers in the industry and is a frequent collaborator with veteran director Michael Apted (Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Trader, 49 Up, Amazing Grace).

ADVISORS:

Irene Poon Andersen, art historian
Suellen Cheng, historian
Arthur Dong, filmmaker
Howard Green, Disney executive
Don Hahn, producer
Leslee See Leong
Sonia Mak, curator
Barbara and Richard Marks, editors
Freida Lee Mock, filmmaker
Kuniko Okubo, filmmaker
Lisa See, author
Lella Smith, Director Animation Research Library
Ted Thomas, filmmaker
Kim Wong, Wong Family
Jessica Yu, Filmmaker