Asian World Film Festival

Board Members

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Ms. Debra Mathey

Mr. Kuban Toichubaev 

Dr. Peter Vu & Dr. Valerie Trang Le 

HONORARY BOARD MEMBERS

LONI ANDERSON, Actress/Soundtrack

AMARSAIKHAN “AMRAA” BALJINNYAMYNActor/Producer (Mongolia)

SALEH BAKRI, Actor (Palestine)

PETER BELSITO, International Film Consultant and Producer

ROSALIND CHAO, Actress

MARGARET CHO, Comedian/Actress/Writer/Producer

JOAN CHEN, Actress/Director/Producer

TSAI CHIN, Actress

KIEU CHINH, Actress

MARK DACASCOS, Actor/Stunts/Director

FRITZ FRIEDMAN, Studio Publicist - 34 years with Sony Studios, Co-founder of CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment)

HRH PRINCE GHARIOS OF GHASSAN, Filmmaker and Heir of the Ghassanid Dynasty

DAVID HENRY HWANG, Tony Award-Winning Playwright, Pulitzer Finalist, Screen and TV writer, Co-Founder CAPE

KIRILL KARO, Actor (Russia/Latvia)

MARIO KASSAR, Executive Producer

KRISTA KLEINER, Founder & Executive Director of The One Heart Movement, Actress

NANCY KWAN, Actress, Producer

LUCY LIU, Screen Actors Guild Award-Winning Actress

LISA LU, Award-Winning Actress

TZI MA, Actor, Producer

AMIN MAALOUF, French/Lebanese Best-Selling Author, Member of the Academie Française- one of the 40 immortals

BOBBY MORESCO, Oscar-winning screenwriter & Director

FRANCE NUYEN, Actress/Soundtrack

GEORGE OVASHVILI, Filmmaker from the Republic of Georgia, short-listed for the Oscars

HON. ROY PAUL, Judge for the Superior Court of Los Angeles County in California

HA PHUONG, Singer, Actress, Producer, & Philanthropist

JASON T. REED, Producer (MULAN & NINJA TURTLES) was Head of Disney in China

ARTHUR SARKISSIAN, Producer (RUSH HOUR)

HARRY SHUM Jr., Actor

SRILA SINGH, Philanthropist & Arts Mentor

LAUREN TOM, Obie-Winning Actress

TAMLYN TOMITA, Award-Winning Actress

IRENE TSU, Actress/Costume Designer/Soundtrack

MERYEM UZERLI, Actress, Producer

MING-NA WEN, Screen Actors Guild Award-Nominated Actress

VIVIAN WU, Actress/Producer/Composer

NAN YING, Musician, First Violinist

GRACE YOO, Korean Activist and Public Figure

RON YUAN, Actor/Stunts

TEDDY ZEE, Producer, Studio Executive 

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

ANDERS BALLESTAD, Director Innovation Strategy, BARCO

ANDRZEJ BARTKOWIAK, Cinematographer/Director/Producer

LENA BASSE, Journalist, Golden Globe Foundation Member

PROFESSOR MICHAEL BERRY, Director of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies

SILVIA BIZIO, Golden Globe Foundation Member, Journalist/Writer/Producer

SERGEI BODROV, Multiple Oscar Nominated Director

TALAAT CAPTAN, Producer & Studio Executive

JEON CHANIL, Gyeonggi Film Commission (South Korea), Committee Chairman

ANDY CHENG, Stunts/Second Unit Director/Assistant Director/Actor

ERSI DANOUGolden Globe Foundation Member

MERAL MELIKA DURAN, European Parliament Political Advisor, WECTAC Foundation Co-Founder & President and West Coast Turkish Chamber of Commerce Executive Director 

SARAH FINN, Casting Director & Producer

ANDRE GUIMOND, Journalist

LIANNE HUFilm Producer

MEDHA JAISHANKAR, Producer/Media Consultant (India)

GE JIHONG, Special Representative of Phoenix TV (Mainland China) & Professor at Communication University of Zheijiang (China)

JEREMY KAGAN, Emmy-Winning TV and Film Director

IMRAN KHAN, American/Indian Star

SYDNEY LEVINE, International Film Consultant and Indiewire columnist, SydneysBuzz

ADELE LIM, Writers Guild of America Award-Nominated Screenwriter 

THOMAS LIM, Director/Producer/Actor, Singapore

PHILIPPE MARTINEZ, Producer/Director

JANET SUSAN R. NEPALES, Golden Globe Associate and Golden Globe Foundation Member, Award-winning Journalist and Author

RUBEN V. NEPALES, Golden Globe Associate and Golden Globe Foundation Member, Award-winning Journalist and Author 

SHIRLEY HON - Global Connector with Cross-Industry Expertise

RANDOLPH MENDELSOHN, Esc. , Attorney at Law & Executive Producer

ANDRE MORGAN, Award-Winning Producer

YOKO NARAHACHI, Casting Director/Film Director, Japan

HEATHER RAE, Oscar-Nominated Producer & Actress

MARK SHAW, Film Executive

CARLO SILIOTTO, Film Composer, Italy

THOMAS AUJERO SMALL, Writer and former Mayor of Culver City

MICHELLE K. SUGIHARA, Executive Director of CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment)

PENG SUN, Film Executive, Producer (China)

KANAT TOREBAY, Film Producer

LULU WANG, Award-Winning Director

WENTING TING TING XU, Journalist (China)

YING YE, Producer & DistributorManaging Director of Easternlight Films (Arclight)

OLARY YIM, Cultural Event Producer

GARY YU,  Founder & President Boston International Media Consulting Inc & Boston Asian Radio & Television and Boston Film Academy

JOACHIM ZELL, BARCO Head of HDR Content Workflow

IN LOVING MEMORY

2016 - PRESENT

MURAT ALIYEV, Director of Photography (Kyrgyzstan) 

VLADIMIR MENSHOV, Oscar Winning-Director (Russia)

KEON-SEOP PARK, South Korean Film Producer

SERGEI RACHLIN, HFPA, Foreign Movies Committee

AL RUDDY, Oscar-winning Producer

DAVID SEIDLER, Oscar-winning screenwriter

JEAN-MARC VALLEE, Emmy-Winner &Director of Oscar Nominated DALLAS BUYERS CLUB

MURRAY WEISSMAN, Publicist (Weissman Markovitz Communications)