Basic Emotions, filmmakers

 

Georgia Lee, director, HAPPINESS AND SADNESS

Award-winning writer/director Georgia Lee has directed five short films. Her first two shorts, THE
BIG DISH: TIANANMEN '89 (B&W, 16 mm 1998), and BLOOM (Color, 16 mm, 1999), have shown
at numerous film festivals and BLOOM was acquired and broadcast by PBS as part of the Reel
New York series. In 2000 she was selected by director Martin Scorsese to serve as his apprentice
on the set of GANGS OF NEW YORK in Rome. Her subsequent short film EDUCATED (Color, 35mm, 2002) has shown in over 30 festivals around the world and won the "Best Short Film" award at the 2003 Durango Film Festival. Georgia recently finished her two latest short films, BASIC EMOTIONS and DIAGNOSIS, which have begun to screen at festivals around the country. Georgia is currently in post-production on her first feature film RED DOORS, an early draft of which won the Jerome Foundation New York Media Arts Grant Award. Last year she was also awarded a Film Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Prior to becoming a filmmaker, she worked for management consulting firm McKinsey & Company and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from Harvard University.

 

 

Julie Pham, director, ANGER AND FEAR
Julie Pham recently graduated with an MFA in film from Columbia University. Her thesis project,
NON-DISCLOSURE, a short 16mm fiction film, has been accepted to the Wine Country Film Festival
and Mill Valley Film Festival. ADULT HELP WANTED, a documentary, was screened at numerous film festivals, including the New Orleans Film Festival and the Chicago Underground Film Festival. She also directed MISS NEW YORK, a feature-length documentary, which is currently in post-production. At Columbia, Julie won a two-year teaching fellowship (Documentary History, Jazz & Cinema) as well as a four-year Ford/EEOC fellowship. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from The University of Texas in 1998.

 

 

Thomas Moon, director, SURPRISE AND DISGUST
Thomas Moon was born in Seoul and raised in Queens, New York. After graduating from
Brown University with a degree in English Literature, he studied film and video at Third
World Newsreel and Columbia University, where his student shorts, FOG and 10PM were
recognized as faculty selects at the school's annual film festival. 10PM received the Milos Forman
Finishing Fund and won the Pepsi Student Filmmaker Award. His most recent works include 98.599 - a short film about high school, cheating and rumors and 3 MINUTES AT MY FAVORITE SPOT – an experimental DV short film about space, time and image. He is currently working on two feature length screenplays with no numbers in the titles: DOG and TEXAS.

 

 

 

Producer: Thomas Yong
Thomas Yong was born in Seoul, but raised in Denmark. After earning his graduate degree in International Business, Thomas moved to New York City where he founded Shouting Cow Productions, LLC, an independent film and TV production company. With Shouting Cow, Thomas produced the short film BASIC EMOTIONS - an ambitious production involving three teams of writers and directors shooting three separate stories. BASIC EMOTIONS premiered at Los Angeles International Short Film Festival 2004. In 2003 Thomas associate produced Jae Song's short film HOPSCOTCH based on a novel by Julio Cortazár, which premiered at Hamptons International Film Festival in 2004. In 2003, Thomas produced COLOR OF A DOUBT: AN URBAN FABLE directed by Pornsak Pichetshote and Jason Garrett Lewis, and associate produced Georgia Lee's latest short film: DIAGNOSIS.