VICKY SHEN
(co-director, writer, producer)

Vicky Shen received a B.A. in film production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Her advanced student film, The Killing Seasons, which she wrote, directed and acted in, garnered awards at several film festivals, including the Tampere International Short Film Festival, and was a finalist at the DGA Student Awards. Her screenplay “Untitled Hours Project” was a semi-finalist at the Sundance Institute and Steven Spielberg’s Chesterfield Writer’s Project.

She is also an honoree of the mentorship program, Project:Involve at Film Independent ( home of the Independent Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival), where “Adultolescence” was mentored by Kayo Hatta (”Picture Bride”/Winner of Sundance Audience Award) and Lee Zlotoff (”Spitfire Grill”/Winner of Sundance Audience Award; Creator of “MacGyver”).

ZOE BUI
(co-director)

Zoe Bui was born in Saigon. She studied History at Yale. At USC School of Cinematic Arts, she completed a documentary, “I am Viet Hung”: Vietnamese Hero, which aired on PBS as part of its Independent Lens series. Zoe made her acting debut as the lead character opposite Harvey Keitel in the Sundance triple award-winning feature (Jury Prize, Audience Award, Best Cinematography), “Three Seasons” (1999), directed by Tony Bui. She recently co-wrote a feature about the Vietnamese refugee experience in small town America. Zoe also writes music and produces music videos.

ELEONORE DAILLY
(producer)

Eleonore Dailly is a young filmmaker, who left a successful, legal career to pursue her dream of fostering change through narrative films and documentary projects with a strong social message. Her credits include “Dirt! The Movie”, a feature length award-winning film about the life beneath our feet, which premiered at Sundance in 2009, and “Chicas: Sean Discretas”, a feature length documentary that follows three courageous streetwalkers who fight for their rights as women in poverty-stricken Argentina. She is currently in production on a film about the life and art of famed Cuban-American artist, Jorge Pardo, and in pre-production on “Mouton Village”, a broad comedy about clashing cultures.

She has trained in both the independent and the studio realm, including Dreamworks and for Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen's production company at Paramount Pictures. Previously, Eleonore practiced international civil litigation and human rights law in New York City and worked as a public policy advocate in Argentina, Kenya and Uganda.

In 2007, she was awarded the prestigious Debra Hill Fellowship for promising, young female filmmakers for her work on feature film development. That accolade came on the heels of Eleonore’s intense training at the University of Southern California’s Peter Stark Producer Program and a law degree from Columbia Law School.

JORGE CORANTE
(composer)

Jorge Corante is a gifted composer/producer with over 15 years of music industry experience, having written, produced and remixed for a multitude of multi-platinum artists, including Outkast, Janet Jackson and Paula Abdul. After an unexpected opportunity to write songs for a major film, Jorge was thrust into the world of film and television; and has since gone on to score feature films, network television shows as well continuing to produce artists that he feels passionate about. In 2005, Jorge launched Urban Authentic to develop as a boutique, full-service music company.

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