So Yun Um is a Korean American Filmmaker born and based in Los Angeles. Her directorial debut feature film, LIQUOR STORE DREAMS, which is about second generation Korean American children of Liquor Store owners in the LA area is made its World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival. So is a CAAM 2021 Fellow with mentorship support from acclaimed Director Nanfu Wang. She is also an alumnus of the Armed with a Camera Fellowship by Visual Communication, recipient of the Sundance Uprise Grant and a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Grantee. She is a proud member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia and the Asian American Documentary Network.

Website: www.soyunum.com/

Eddie Kim is a Filmmaker, Producer, and Writer based in Los Angeles, and he is a believer in creating stories that amplify underserved voices. Eddie has deep experience in producing original series for digital media and television. His work has been featured on The New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, The View, Billboard, Hypebeast, and more. In partnership with the Executive Producer of THE OFFICE, Eddie has directed and produced multiple docu-series exploring the lives of young Asian Americans in Los Angeles and Orange County. His series, entitled K-TOWN, was nominated for a Streamy Award for Best Reality Docu-series. Currently, Eddie is a Supervising Creative Producer at Spotify where he is charged to create original content for video and audio with rising artists, top stars, and podcast creators. He is also a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Grantee as the Producer of the feature length documentary, LIQUOR STORE DREAMS.

Website: www.iameddiekim.com/

Laura Choi is a Korean American Producer and Entrepreneur. She works with brands to explore identity and storytelling through content. Laura grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and studied marketing at the University of Pennsylvania. After helping build eyewear startup Warby Parker, Laura founded a line of resort wear, Par en Par. Choi was an Associate Producer on Benjamin Wong’s feature narrative film, THE LONGEST SLEEP and currently, a producer at Apple. She also previously served as a Venture Director of Gold House, a non-profit dedicated to supporting the Asian diaspora in the arts.

Diane Quon is an Academy Award-nominated producer who worked as a marketing executive for 17 years at NBC and Paramount Pictures before moving back to her hometown of Chicago. Quon has produced the Kartemquin Films documen- taries: Oscar and Emmy nominated, Peabody and Sundance award-winning film, Minding the Gap directed by Bing Liu; The Dilemma of Desire with Peabody Award-winning director Maria Finitzo (SXSW and HotDocs 2020); Finding Yingying with director Jiayan “Jenny” Shi (SXSW 2020, Special Jury Recognition for Breakthrough Voice); and For the Left Hand along with Howard Reich, and co-directed by Leslie Simmer and Gordon Quinn. She is also producing the documentary Untitled Sam Project directed by Nadav Kurtz and executive produced by Jeremiah Yagar, Jeremy Yaches and Abby Kang Davis. In addition, Quon is developing a fiction film based on the NY Times best-seller, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. Quon is an AMPAS Member, a Sundance Creative Producing Fellow, a Film Independent Fellow, an IFP Cannes Producer Fellow and the recipient of the 2020 Cinereach Producer Award and Hot Springs Film Festival Impact Award.

Website: www.dianequon.com/

Daniel J. Chalfen is a Peabody and duPont winning and multiple-Emmy nominated film and television producer, and a co-founder of Naked Edge Films. His films have premiered at the world’s foremost film festivals, including Berlin, Sundance, SXSW, Toronto and Tribeca, have been released in the US by companies including Samuel Goldwyn Films, Participant Media, Kino Lorber, and Focus Features, and have aired/streamed worldwide including in the US on Amazon, DirecTV, Discovery ID, HBO, Hulu, Netflix, Showtime, and PBS, among others. Chalfen’s most recent credits include Pray Away (executive produced by Ryan Murphy & Jason Blum), Sundance award winners Always in Season and The Infiltrators, Bathtubs Over Broadway (executive produced by Jason Blum & David Letterman), United Skates (executive produced by John Legend), and Silenced (executive produced by Susan Sarandon). Chalfen is a Documentary Branch member of AMPAS and a voting member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).

Founded in the Bay Area by Gloria Zhu and Stanley Tang, Bearcat Content (www.bearcat.com) invests in innovative builders creating unscripted content, social impact documentaries, and new media startups. Bearcat is focused on topics of economic empowerment, financial literacy, and technology. Projects Stanley and Gloria have been involved in as Executive Producers include 'Liquor Store Dreams,' 'Another Body,' and 'This Is Not Financial Advice.' Bearcat is also an investor in Watcher Entertainment and Jubilee Media.

Tanuj Chopra’s first feature film, Punching at the Sun, about South Asian teenagers coming of age in Elmhurst, Queens, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca, and won the Grand Jury Prize at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. Chopra is currently working on industrial and independent film projects through his production company Chops Films; projects include a $100,000 development grant from Visual Communications and the popular episodic mini-series Nice Girls Crew, starring Sheetal Sheth, Michelle Krusiec, and Lynn Chen. Most recently, he is working on Netflix’s Delhi Crimes.

Angela Park is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker. Her work stems from video installations, the fine arts, to intricate character studies. Her films have screened in festivals across the US and gained attention on the PBS YouTube Short Showcase. The short film LILY was a finalist in Justin Lin's YOMYOMF Interpretations Initiative competition. Park works in all aspects of filmmaking, including producing and editing. She was an editor on, TYRUS, a documentary feature about the Chinese American groundbreaking artist Tyrus Wong, which premiered at the 2017 Telluride Film Festival. Other editing collaborations include; TWO MILES EAST, a documentary short which opened the 2019 San Diego Asian Film Festival, and NICE, an episodic pilot that premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.

Christina Sun Kim is a Los Angeles-based editor who grew up in South Korea and the Midwest of the United States. Soon after graduation, she cut her first full-length documentary, Tattooed Under Fire (dir. Nancy Schiesari), an ITVS-funded film about Iraq veterans and their emotional scars. In 2014, Christina earned her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and was also named a Film Independent Project Involve fellow. She then spent time producing and editing short social justice documentaries, collaborating with Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmakers and a network of community organizers throughout California. Christina was happy to find her way back to editing long-form documentaries with her most recent work, Land of My Father (dir. Matthew Koshmrl). She received the 2020 Karen Schmeer Emerging Editor Fellowship and currently worked on So Yun Um's feature documentary, Liquor Store Dreams.

Website: http://csunkim.com/

Sal is a multi-instrumentalist who hails from the sonic and cultural melting pot of Los Angeles. He’s always been attracted to what can be heard and done on the fringes of common pop/rock spaces. After playing and touring in bands both at home and abroad, Liquor Store Dreams is his first feature score.