KEN KOKKA
Writer/Director
TALenT DeVeLoPMenT ProGrAM:
Project:Involve
CUrrenT ProJeCT:
Topaz (Narrative Feature)
LOGLINE
Hiro Murata, head of the military volunteer movement in Topaz Relocation Center during World War II,
fi nds himself caught between family and country when he learns that his older brother Frank has assumed
leadership of the anti-war opposition group.
BIO
Born and raised in Berkeley, Ken Kokka is a graduate of the MFA Directing Program at the UCLA School of
Theater, Film and Television. Kokka’s experience includes working in production management for Academy-
Award winning documentary fi lmmaker Steven Okazaki at Farallon Films, and Visual Effects production at
Tippett Studio on fi lms Starship Troopers, The Haunting, and Evolution. Kokka has written and directed
several short fi lms, including The Chessmen, a dramatic narrative about the plight of Japanese-Americans
returning to their former neighborhoods following their internment during World War II, and glimmer, his
thesis fi lm about a family’s struggle to maintain its balance after a devastating loss. Most recently, Kokka
travelled to Beijing and Shanghai with the Visual Effects team on John Woo’s new fi lm, Red Cliff.

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