HIFF.ORG AMERICAN IMMIGRANT FILMMAKERS ON PROFILE PRESENTED BY THE VILCEK FOUNDATION
The Vilcek Foundation, which honors the outstanding contributions of foreign-born artists and scientists to American culture, is pleased to recognize these filmmakers and actors. It is creative spirits like theirs that enliven and inspire American cinema, and art form that owes much to the immigrant community in this country.
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HOSSEIN KESHAVARZ While working in business for several years, Hossein Keshavarz
frequently hid in the bathroom to write screenplays, leading him to pursue a career in film. SITE IN FISHKILL CREEK, which he wrote and produced, premiered at the Palm Springs Film Festival in 2004 and CHRISTMASLAND, which he wrote and directed, is being distributed by Shorts International. Hossein recently completed his MFA at Columbia University. His feature script, THIS MODERN LOVE, went through the Berlinale’s Script Clinic. DOG SWEAT is Hossein Keshavarz’s feature film debut.
LISA LU Shanghai native Lisa Lu could well have been one of the earliest Chinese
acting talents to make the great trans-Pacific crossing and carve her mark in Hollywood. In the US, Lu worked as a Chinese tutor for high school students, a magazine reporter as well as radio host and became one of the founding members of the Hollywood Foreign Press. Most recently, Lu stars in Wang Quanan’s APART TOGETHER which was the opening film for the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival.
IN-AH LEE
In-Ah Lee is a producer based in Los Angeles and Cologne. She was raised and educated in Hamburg, Germany, where she graduated from Law School in 1992. She moved to Los Angeles in 1998 where she worked for Ridley Scott Associates, a commercial production house with director Marcus Nispel. Lee produced THE WAY I SPENT THE END OF THE WORLD for Romanian director Catalin Mitulescu (Cannes 2006, Un Certain Regard, Best Actress Award), Grace Lee’s AMERICAN ZOMBIE, and recently completed production on AU REVOIR TAIPEI (Berlin 2010 NETPAC Award) by Arvin Chen.
MIAO WANG Miao Wang is a filmmaker based in New York City, currently splitting
her time between there and Beijing. Born and raised in Beijing just after the Cultural Revolution, she grew up with the last remnants of a pre- modernized Communist China. Miao has a B.A. with honors in economics from the University of Chicago and a M.F.A. in design and film from the Parsons School of Design. She aspires to make genre-bending poetic and cinematic documentaries that inspire human connections and reflect on the universalities of the human condition.
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