Daryl Chin, is Associate Editor of PAJ: A Journal of Performance & Art.  He has contributed articles to M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory and Criticism (edited by Susan Bee and Mira Schor; Duke University Press, 2001), Asia in New York City: A Cultural Travel Guide (Asia Society & Avalon Travel Press, 2001), Tokens: The NYC Asian American Experience on Stage (edited by Alvin Eng; Asian American Writers Workshop & Temple University Press, 2001), among other anthologies. In a series of four lectures held at AAARI entitled “Asian American Cinema Workshop: The Moving Images of the Asian-American”, he examined some of the issues relating to the representation of Asian identity in American media.  Currently, he is completing a monograph on the video artist Shigeko Kubota.

 

Daniel Fernandez is Marketing Director at Third World Newsreel, an alternative media arts organization committed to the production and distribution of social issue media by and about people of color. He is in the doctoral program in philosophy at the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science at New School University, and he teaches philosophy at the City University of New York (LaGuardia College), State University of New York (Nassau College) and St. John’s University.

 

Yunah Hong is a New York based video/filmmaker.   Her latest documentary is “Between the Lines: Asian American Women's Poetry” (2001) which received a CINE Golden Eagle Award in Education category in 2002.  Her documentary, “Becoming an Actress in New York” (2000) named a final nominee for aMedia's 2001 Ammy Awards for Best Documentary.  Her other works include “Styles Section”, “Through the Milky Way”, which was awarded First Prize in Video Art at the 1992 Tam Tam International Video Festival in Italy, “Here Now”, winner of the Special Jury Award at the 2nd Seoul Short Film Festival in Korea in 1995, and a feature screenplay, “Monday”, which was an official selection of PPP 1998: Pusan International Film Festival Film Market in Korea.

Ms. Hong was born in Seoul, Korea, and moved to New York in 1985 to pursue her studies in video art.  She received a B.F.A. degree in applied arts from Seoul National University and a M.A. degree in communication arts from New York Institute of Technology.

 

Kelly Jeong is an assistant professor of English at John Jay College of Criminial Justice. Her research interests include Korean literature and cinema, Asian American literature, film studies and cultural studies. She is a graduate of UC Irvine and UCLA, and is currently writing on gender, nationhood and modernity in Korean literature and film.

 

Herman Lew is an Assistant Professor and the program Director of the undergraduate Film and Video Production specialization in the Department of Media and Communication Arts at The City College of New York. He has written and directed seven short films and his extensive work as a cinematographer includes feature films, documentaries, and commercials. Professor Lew is the recipient of a New York Foundation For The Arts Fellowship and has received grants from the New York State Council On The Arts. Since 1989, he has been the director of the nationally recognized Film and Video Production Workshop program at Third World Newsreel. He also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Thomas Edison Media Arts Consortium, which produces the Academy Award sanctioned Black Maria Film Festival.

 

Roopali Mukherjee, P.h. D., is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, CUNY.  Dr. Mukherjee joined the City University of New York, after working for several years as a faculty member at Indiana University, Bloomington and the University of California, Los Angeles.  Her research and teaching focuses on issues of race/ethnicity, contemporary film, and American politics.  She is currently completing a book entitled, “The Racial Order of Things: Public Policy and the Cultural Imaginary," and has published articles on affirmative action, American patriotism, and race and gender.  She teaches courses on political communication, free speech, and news analysis.

 

Vinit Parmar was born in the State of Bihar, India, in 1967, and was educated and lived in New York City.  He is fluent in English, Hindi, Gujarati, and French.  Educated in a myriad of backgrounds in medicine, law, film and theater, he began practicing law in New York City and has worked in the areas of corporate, banking, commercial real estate, insurance, landlord tenant, family, immigration, criminal, and entertainment, including copyright and contracts.

Vinit has diverse work experiences in New York’s theater and independent film industry where he worked in various capacities as an actor, stage manager, and assistant director for several off-Broadway theatrical shows.  In film, he works as a sound mixer and editor for a variety of genres in both documentary and fiction films, many of which have received regional and national awards and accreditation, and other awards or nominations at festivals such as Sundance, Slamdance, United States Super8 Film + Digital Video Festival, and the Fringe Festival.  Vinit enjoys teaching full time as an Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College’s Film Department, and he writes, produces, directs, shoots, and edits short films and documentaries.

 

Thomas Tam, is Executive Director of the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI).   Dr. Tam is also Chairman of the Asian American Higher Education Council (AAHEC), as well as the President of Oishi Movies, Inc., which produced a feature: Sunrise on Mulberry Street .  He received his Ph.D. degree in SocioMedical Sciences with honors from Columbia University, and other degrees in Film-making, Public Health, and Physics from Montclair State University, Columbia, and City College of New York, CUNY.