Asian World Film Festival
Board Members
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Dr. HOANG LAN LE, Entrepreneur
Mr. Kuban Toichubaev
HONORARY BOARD MEMBERS
AMARSAIKHAN “AMRAA” BALJINNYAMYN, Actor/Producer (Mongolia)
SALEH BAKRI, Actor (Palestine)
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
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
NANCY KWAN, Actress, Producer
KYUNG HWA LEE, Journalist, Artist, Director, and Cross-Cultural Media Scholar
LUCY LIU, Screen Actors Guild Award-Winning Actress
LISA LU, Award-Winning Actress
TZI MA, Actor, Producer
AMIN MAALOUF, French/LebaneseBest-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
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
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
GRACE YOO, Korean Activist and Public Figure
RON YUAN, Actor/Stunts
TEDDY ZEE, Producer, Studio Executive
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
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
PROFESSOR EMILE CHAHINE, Critic, Film Historian (Lebanon)
JEON CHANIL, Film Scholar & Film Critic, South Korea
DR. DO LENH HONG TU, Chairman of the Vietnam Cinema Association (Vietnam)
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 HU, Film Producer
MAI THU HUYEN, Director/Producer Actress (Vietnam)
MEDHA JAISHANKAR, Producer/Media Consultant (India)
JANG CHEOL-SOO, Film Director (South Korea)
JEREMY KAGAN, Emmy-Winning TV and Film Director
IMRAN KHAN, American/Indian Star
SYDNEY LEVINE, International Film Consultant and Indiewire columnist, SydneysBuzz
LISA LEW, Co-Founder and Exec Producer of the Manila International Film Festival, Los Angeles
ADELE LIM, Writers Guild of AmericaAward-Nominated Screenwriter
THOMAS LIM, Director/Producer/Actor, Singapore
JAESEON MA, Producer, Media Executive and Co-Founder of East West Ventures.
MOHANNAD MALAS, Film Finance
WOODY MU, Scholar & Chairman of King Hu Foundation
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
VERA MIJOJLIC, Founder, President of the Board, South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles
ANDRE MORGAN, Award-WinningProducer
YOKO NARAHACHI, Casting Director/Film Director, Japan
ELNURA OSMONALIEVA, Award Winning Kyrgyz Filmmaker, Producer, Actress and Cultural Leader
HEATHER RAE, Oscar-Nominated Producer & Actress
CARLO SILIOTTO, Film Composer, Italy
MICHELLE K. SUGIHARA, Executive Director of CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment)
KANAT TOREBAY, Film Producer
LULU WANG, Award-Winning Director
IRIS WANG, Producer & VP at SHINEWORK PICTURES, Beijing
YING YE, Producer & Distributor, Managing Director of Easternlight Films (Arclight)
OLARY YIM, Cultural Event Producer
JOACHIM “𝐉𝐙” ZELL, BARCO Head of HDR Content Workflow
IN LOVING MEMORY
2016 - PRESENT
LONI ANDERSON, Actress/Soundtrack
MURAT ALIYEV, Director of Photography (Kyrgyzstan)
PETER KWONG, Actor, Stunt
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)