Regina Miyoung Park – Director/Producer/Editor
Regina Park is a second-generation Korean-American. After graduating from Columbia University, Regina's feature narrative script MORNING CALM was selected for the San Francisco's 2000 International Film Financing Conference where she also received a Center for Asian American Media scholarship. In May 2007 Regina's first documentary feature film, NEVER PERFECT, won a Houston WorldFest Silver Remi Award. It world premiered at the EBS International Documentary Festival in Seoul, Korea where it was also broadcast nationally. NEVER PERFECT was an official selection of several US and international festivals (it was also selected as the opening night film for the Asiascope Film Festival in Rotterdam in April 2009) and markets, and has been screened at over 25 universities and national academic conferences nationwide. Its US television broadcast was in May, 2008 on MHz Worldview, launching the network’s Asian Pacific American Awareness Month. It is an IFP-sponsored project, is distributed by Cinema Guild and is represented by Smiley Film Sales (sales agent for OscarTM-winners BLOOD OF YINGZHOU DISTRICT and FREEHELD and 2009 OscarTM-nominee THE WITNESS). Regina is currently in pre-production on her next documentary feature, REDEMPTION, which explores human trafficking and the rehabilitation and reintegration of Asian female survivors in the United States. The film is sponsored by Women Make Movies and is a proud recipient of the Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media.
Edward Robinson, Jr. – Producer/Cinematographer
Mr. Robinson has had more than ten years’ experience in the film and television industry. He has directed and produced commercials and high-end industrials for his own independent production company and he also works currently in New York City as a lighting technician for major studio feature films, television series and commercials where he has worked with such reputable directors as Martin Scorsese, Sydney Pollack, Sam Mendes and Ron Howard.
Henry Hung – Composer
Mr. Hung, a first-generation Taiwanese-American, started his musical career in New York, studying trumpet and music theory with Dave Burns (Dizzy Gillespie's Big Band, James Moody), Vincent Penzarella (New York Philharmonic) and Byron Stripling (Carnegie Hall, GRP All-Stars). He attended the Manhattan School of Music from 1993-1997 where he received a Bachelor's Degree of Music in Jazz Performance. From Manhattan, Henry moved to San Francisco where he currently resides, performing and teaching the trumpet throughout the Bay Area.
Mr. Hung is a versatile performer, playing with groups that span the musical spectrum from traditional to avant-garde. He has performed with various jazz ensembles most notably Stanley Clarke, the Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra, the Mitch Marcus Group, the BJ Papa Quintet and his own group, Downtown Uproar. He is experienced playing with various world music ensembles such as Asian-influenced music, Anthony Brown’s Grammy-nominated Asian American Jazz Orchestra and Asian Crisis. Afrobeat and African hi-life with the Amandla Poets, Albino and Kotoja. Brazilian percussion with Fojo No Roupa and SambAsia, and reggaeton with Manicato.
He has played pop music with Merl Saunders (the Grateful Dead) and has played funk with popular San Francisco bands such as Boostamonte and the award-winning Realistic Orchestra. Henry is also active in the vibrant Bay Area Latin music scene, performing with numerous bands such as Mazacote, Borinquen, Orquestra Kalichin, Timbalero, Danilo Y Su Orquesta Universal, Orquestra America, Bolero Y Mas and Surco Nuevo. Henry is an original member of Guerrilla HiFi, the 2004 San Francisco Weekly Reader's Poll Winner for best world group. He is also highly active in the new music scene working with Graham Connah, Darren Johnston's United Brassworker's Front, Adam Lanes’ Full Throttle Orchestra and Aaron Novak's Gubbish. Henry has also played with the Redwood Symphony, performing classical symphonic works such as Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Gustav Mahler’s 2nd Symphony.
Venues and places where he has performed include the Fillmore, Jazz @ Pearl’s, the Boom Boom Room, the Great American Music Hall, Yoshi's, the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC, the Legion of Honor, the DeYoung Museum, the Berkeley Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of Art and the Asian American Museum of San Francisco. Henry has also played in many of the top festivals including the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Stern Grove Festival, the North Beach Jazz Festival, the Fillmore Jazz Festival, the San Jose Jazz Festival and the Russian River World Music Festival.
Henry Hung is a very active teacher as well, teaching private lessons at the Academy of Language, Music and Arts in Orinda, CA. He has also taught at Skyline High School in Oakland, CA, the Jazzschool in Berkeley, CA, and with the MUSE Program in elementary schools in Hayward, CA.
Henry also writes and arranges music for many of the groups with whom he performs, arranging for all styles of music and ensembles of all sizes. He has also scored music to three short films, "Seduction," “Look Both Ways” and "Talk to Me."