Georgia Lee (Director/Writer/Producer)

Award-winning writer-director Georgia Lee has directed five short films.  Her first two shorts, The Big Dish: Tiananmen ‘89 (1998) and Bloom (1999), have shown at numerous film festivals, and Bloom was acquired and broadcast on the Reel New York series.  In 2000, she was selected by director Martin Scorsese to serve as his apprentice on the set of Gangs of New York in Rome.  Lee’s next film, Educated (2002) has shown in over 30 festivals around the world and won the Best Short Film award at the 2003 Durango Film Festival.  Educated also aired in the summer of 2004 as part of the Reel New York series.  Lee recently finished her two latest short films, Basic Emotions (2004) and Diagnosis (2004), which have begun to screen at festivals around the country.  Lee’s debut feature film Red Doors will have its world premiere at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival.  She is the recipient of the Jerome Foundation New York Media Arts Grant Award and a film fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.  Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Lee worked for management consulting firm McKinsey & Company and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from Harvard University.

Jane Chen (Producer)

Jane Chen was most recently Vice President of Strategy at American Vantage Media, the parent company of Hypnotic (producers of The O.C.) and YaYa (video game developer).  Prior to AVM, Chen was Director of Research at <kpe>, an interactive marketing agency for the media and entertainment industry serving clients such as Sony, Carsey-Warner-Mandabach, and World Wrestling Entertainment.  She has written numerous articles and reports on entertainment marketing and is one of the foremost experts on the subject within the interactive space.   She has been featured in The Hollywood Reporter, The Industry Standard, The Harvard Business Review, and The New York Times.  In 1999, she was involved in the production of Georgia Lee’s short film Bloom.  In 2001, Chen co-wrote and co-produced the short film Educated.  She also served as Executive Producer on Lee’s most recent short Diagnosis.  Chen graduated cum laude with a Bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard University.

Mia Riverton (Producer)

Mia Riverton has worked extensively in film, television and theater as both an actress and producer.  Feature film acting credits include The Last Race, Recoil and CEO, by acclaimed Chinese director Wu Tian-Ming for Beijing Film Studios.  Recent TV appearances include One on One for UPN and Strong Medicine for Lifetime.  Riverton has also performed on stage in New York, Los Angeles, and Boston; recent work includes Voices We Remember at the Geffen Playhouse, Street Psalms at the American Repertory Theater, the world premiere of Mixed Messages at East West Players, and the Ovation Award-winning musical bare: A Pop Opera.  As a producer, Riverton has created and/or worked on a number of programs and features for Fox Entertainment, including Malcolm in the Middle, Son of the Beach and The Crasher.  Her cross-media producing approach has been featured in Variety and the Los Angeles Times.  She is also the founder and president of Harvardwood, a nonprofit arts and entertainment association.  Originally from Indianapolis, Riverton attended Park Tudor School and was honored as a Presidential Scholar in her senior year.  She graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard University.

Youna Kwak (Editor)

Youna Kwak has been a documentary, television, and feature film editor since 1995.  Her television credits include programs for CourtTV, ESPN, HBO, NBC, Oxygen Media, PBS, and USA Network.  She was Supervising Editor of The Isaac Mizrahi Show (Oxygen Media) for three seasons.  Her film credits include features and documentaries which have screened at the Boston, Florida, Full Frame, GenArt, Hamptons, Miami, South by Southwest, and Tribeca Film Festival among others.  Credits include Live From New York: The First Five Years of SNL (NBC); Besotted (Dir. Holly Angell Hardman); Dead Broke (Dir. Edward Vilga); Shalom Y’All (Dir. Brian Bain); and Con Man (Dir. Jesse Moss).  Kwak is a founding member and co-owner of the post-production facility Final Frame, located in New York City.

Robert Miller (Composer)

Award winning composer Robert Miller was formally trained at the Mannes College of Music in NYC, and studied privately with American Masters William Schuman and Aaron Copland.  Miller has written several works that have been performed by orchestras nationwide.  He has been the Composer-In-Residence with the New York-based Jupiter Symphony.  The New York Pops performed his orchestrations to Leonard Bernstein’s famed West Side Story Variations at Carnegie Hall. In addition to his symphonic efforts, Miller is considered among the top echelon of composers working in television and commercials.  His recent film projects include the feature documentary, Why We Fight, directed by Eugene Jarecki, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2005, and the short film Vuilo, directed by Jim Gartner.

Susan Jacobs (Music Supervisor)

Susan Jacobs has served as music supervisor on dozens of feature films, including The Village, Storytelling, Shortcuts, Monsoon Wedding, and Girlfight.  At the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, two of her films, Why We Fight and Forty Shades of Blue, won awards for Best Feature and her TV credits include Live from the House of Blues and Happily Ever After.  Jacobs has also produced albums for Disney, Warner Brothers and Columbia, and she has managed both recording artists and music producers.