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Biographies
Masood
Haque is a first year film student in the MFA program in
Media Arts at City College in Harlem. He just finished
a fiction piece titled, "Diazapam". Masood is currently working
on his thesis documentary, about an Imam and his congregation in
Brooklyn, titled, "Marriage, Mortgage and McDonalds".
Winnie Ng
is from Staten Island, NYC. She has been making films since she
was 16 when she entered a filmmaking contest for urban
youth. Sponsored by Showtime, she placed 5th out of hundreds,
but unfortunately did not win the cash prize, and developed a
new expensive hobby she could not afford. Since then, Winnie has
been making shoestring films with the resources available to
her, driven not by "Hollywood Standards" of production, but by
narrative, creativity, and the simple pleasure of making
something out of nothing. Her work focuses on family, Asian-Americanness,
and the media.
Kaori
Okano is from Kanazawa Japan. She finished the Film
Production Certificate program at Brooklyn College in 2005. Her
last film, “Dance Untitled”, was partly funded by Brooklyn
College and was also supported by the Kodak World Wide Student
program. Kaori worked for a Japanese TV network in NY for a year
and also worked on various independent projects. She is now
working on her own projects including a dance documentary and a
feature script.
Alan
Raquel was born in the Philippines, raised in San Francisco
and currently lives in West Harlem. Alan has worked as a
photographer for modeling agencies, community and theater groups
and Filipinas magazine in San Francisco. He entered City
College a few years after moving to New York City where he is
enrolled as an undergraduate with a double major in Media and
Communication Arts (Film/Video) and Art (Electronic Design).
The films
that Alan made so far at City College including "The Photograph"
have been influenced by the Avant-garde movement particularly
Soviet Montage and Constructivism. Studying film has also been
an instrumental tool in the search and discovery of my roots and
culture through the process of making documentaries. Alan would
like to go to graduate school in film, continue his documentary
on the Philippine Aeta indigenous people and make films that are
devoid of classification but will move people on a social /
political / emotional level.
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