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Regina Miyoung Park – Director/Producer/Editor

Regina Park is a second-generation Korean-American. After graduating from Columbia University in New York City with a joint degree in English and film studies, Regina entered the world of independent film where she has remained to this day. Throughout her ten years’ experience in film and television production in New York, she has worked with Academy Award™-winning documentarians such as Jessica Yu and Michael Moore, as well as on other independent feature films, television series, documentaries and commercials in which she has taken on managing, producing, shooting and editing roles for MTV, ABC, Lifetime Television, Bravo and HBO. Her feature narrative script MORNING CALM, which she wrote based on her mother’s childhood memoirs of surviving the Korean War, was among a select group chosen to participate in the 2000 International Film Financing Conference in San Francisco , California where she was also the recipient of a scholarship funded by the Center for Asian American Media. In May 2007 Regina won a Silver Remi Award for her first documentary feature film, NEVER PERFECT, at the 40th WorldFest International Film Festival in Houston, Texas. In August 2007 the film had its world premiere at the EBS International Documentary Festival in Seoul , Korea where it also had a national broadcast on EBS, South Korea ’s equivalent to PBS. It is an official selection of several US festivals including the Asian Film Festival of Dallas, the Boulder Asian Film Festival and the DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival in addition to the Visions du Reel Doc Outlook International Market in Nyon, Switzerland. NEVER PERFECT has sold its North American non-theatrical rights to Cinema Guild in New York City and will have its US television broadcast in 2008. It is a sponsored project of the Independent Feature Project and is represented by Smiley Film Distribution & World Sales (sales agent for Academy Award™-winning documentary BLOOD OF YINGZHOU DISTRICT). In addition to presenting her first feature film to numerous universities across the country, Regina is currently researching and fundraising for her second documentary feature film exploring international sex trafficking involving South Korean women.

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."