Asian World Film Festival
Board Members
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Mr. Mohannad Malas
Ms. Debra Mathey
Mr. Randall Slavin
Mr. Kuban Toichubaev
Dr. Peter Vu & Dr. Valerie Trang Le
Sir Daniel Winn
HONORARY BOARD MEMBERS
LONI ANDERSON, Actress/Soundtrack
AMARSAIKHAN “AMRAA” BALJINNYAMYN, Actor/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
KEN LEUNG, Award-Winning Actor
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
AL RUDDY, Oscar-winning Producer
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
BRAD BALDIA, Federation of Philippine American Chambers of Commerce, National Executive Director
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 DANOU, Golden Globe Foundation Member, Foreign Movies Committee
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/ Golden Globe Foundation Member
FRANCIS LARA HO, Film Executive
LIANNE HU, Film 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 & Distributor, Managing 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
VLADIMIR MENSHOV, Oscar Winning-Director (Russia)
KEON-SEOP PARK, South Korean Film Producer
SERGEI RACHLIN, HFPA, Foreign Movies Committee
DAVID SEIDLER, Oscar-winning screenwriter
JEAN-MARC VALLEE, Emmy-Winner &Director of Oscar Nominated DALLAS BUYERS CLUB
MURRAY WEISSMAN, Publicist (Weissman Markovitz Communications)