Resume

• 2002

  N/A

  Filmmaking

  Sundance Filmmakers Lab

• 1989

  BFA

  Dramatic Writing

• MICHAEL KANG director

  Michael Kang Directing Reel 2014 Michael Kang is a filmmaker currently living in Los Angeles. His first feature film \"The Motel\" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. \"The Motel\" is the recipient of the Humanitas Prize as well as the top jury prizes from numerous festivals including SDAFF Best Narrative Feature

  \"The Motel\" was also nominated for Best First Feature Film by The Independent Spirit Awards.

  MICHAEL KANG director's reel

  Sundance Institute

  At the Institute's core is a commitment to champion the creation of unique work by individual storytellers. Through ticketed events

  open applications

  and by invitation

  we offer workshops

  residential Labs

  Grants

  mentorships with accomplished professionals

  and ongoing support to advance the development and production of independent work.

  Artist Programs | Sundance Institute

  Low Budget Ethnic Movie (2018)

  Directed by Daniel Yoon. With Daniel Yoon

  Constance Wu

  Kavi Ladnier

  Edmund Sim. Jack Lee

  age 39

  realizes he is a complete failure in life. He decides he must find a way to redeem himself

  and in the process encounters several others who are...

  Low Budget Ethnic Movie (2018)

  HAPPY SONG by Emi Meyer

  Director: Michael Kang Producer: Thomas Moon Cinematographer: Joel Young Color / fx: Zhibo Lai Hair & make-up: Hazuki Matsushita Stylist: Robin Choi P.

  MICHAEL KANG director

  Michael Kang Directing Reel 2014 Michael Kang is a filmmaker currently living in Los Angeles. His first feature film \"The Motel\" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. \"The Motel\" is the recipient of the Humanitas Prize as well as the top jury prizes from numerous festivals including SDAFF Best Narrative Feature

  \"The Motel\" was also nominated for Best First Feature Film by The Independent Spirit Awards.

  MICHAEL KANG director's reel

  Moving Walls (TV Movie 2017)

  Directed by Sharon Yamato. Moving Walls tells the story of what happened to the scores of barracks used to house 120

  000 Japanese Americans during WWII. At one camp built on government land in a remote area in Wyoming

  they were sold for a dollar...

  Moving Walls (TV Movie 2017)

  Film and Video Studies

  Our students learn from award-winning

  working filmmakers and scholars at the forefront of independent filmmaking and popular film criticism while working in similar spaces and with the same equipment as professional filmmakers There's nothing like...

  Film and Video Studies

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  San Diego State University is one of the nation's premier urban research universities actively engaged in preparing graduates who will make an impact on the San Diego region and beyond.\n\nThe B.S. in Television

  Film

  and New Media Production (TFM) is designed to prepare students in the moving image arts for a variety of careers in television

  film

  and new media production

  as well as media distribution

  and management in a rapidly evolving technological environment.

  San Diego State University is one of the nation's premier urban research universities actively engaged in preparing graduates who will make an impact on the San Diego region and beyond.

  Television

  Film and New Media Production

  Special Lunch (2017)

  Directed by Michael Kang. With Alexandre Chen

  Jackie Mah

  Julia Rose

  Joy Yao. Sixteen year-old Sharon Foo hates her life working in her parents' restaurant in Chinatown. One day she gets a chance to claim her independence when she invites a...

  Special Lunch (2017)

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  Dramatic Writing: Tisch School of the Arts at NYU

  Graduate Acting Dance Design for Stage & Film Drama Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Performance Studies Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television Undergraduate Film & Television Graduate Film Cinema Studies Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing Emerging Media Group Photography & Imaging Interactive Telecommunications (ITP) Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music NYU Game Center Art & Public Policy / Arts Politics Open Arts Tisch Special Programs Tisch Asia

  Graduate Acting Dance Design for Stage & Film Drama Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Performance Studies Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television Undergraduate Film & Television Graduate Film Cinema Studies Moving Image Archiving & Preservation (MIAP) Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing Emerging Media Group Photography & Imaging Interactive Telecommunications (ITP) Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music NYU Game Center Art & Public Policy / Arts Politics Open Arts Tisch Special Programs Tisch Asia

  Michael Kang - Filmmaker

  Storytelling

  Final Cut Pro

  Editing

  Directing

  Film

  Scripting

  Documentaries

  Television

  Entertainment

  Video Production

  Cinematography

  Independent Film

  Creative Writing

  Broadcast

  Post Production

  Screenwriting

  Film Production

  Feature Films

  Theatre

  Producing

  Finding North

  Comedy with Illeana Douglas and Justine Bateman

  Finding North

  Michael

  Kang

  WIT.tv

  Bridgehead Media

  Gina Gold & Aurorae Khoo

  small Media LARGE

  San Diego State University

  Story Editor

  George Mason University College of Visual and Performing Arts

  KANG is MAN

  Moving Walls : American Nightmare to American Dream

  California State University-Los Angeles

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Winner \"Best Director\" in Short Film Category Independent FIlmmakers Showcase Film Festival\n\nSixteen year-old Sharon Foo hates her life working in her parents' restaurant in Chinatown. One day she gets a chance to claim her independence when she invites a mysterious boy she has a crush on in for the lunch special. \n\n

  Director

  Gina Gold & Aurorae Khoo

  small Media LARGE is a newly formed film production and distribution company that uses a targeted Internet-based marketing and distribution model to launch commercially viable Asian American films.

  small Media LARGE

  Story Editor

  Toronto

  Canada Area

  Narrative feature film by director Daniel Yoon featuring Constance Woo (Fresh Off The Boat

  Crazy Rich Asians)\n\nJack Lee

  age 39

  realizes he is a complete failure in life. He decides he must find a way to redeem himself

  and in the process encounters several others who are similarly lost.

  Low Budget Ethnic Movie

  Oversee development of original content for new media platform.\nHead writer on four original narrative series.

  Bridgehead Media

  Adjunct Instructor

  Film And Video Screenwriting

  Graduate & Undergraduate Level Core Curriculum Course\n\nScreenwriting course emphasizing student development in screenplay form

  structure

  and storytelling with emphasis on craft

  character

  and story culminating in a screenplay.​

  George Mason University College of Visual and Performing Arts

  WIT.tv

  Work directly with writers and the executive team on creative development of original series content. Overseeing the creation of scripts and show bibles on multiple series.\n\nhttp://www.wit.tv/

  Consulting Producer

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  New York

  NY / Los Angeles

  CA / Seoul

  South Korea / Washington D.C. / etc.

  Michael Kang is an independent filmmaker who enjoys writing about himself in the third person. His film \"The Motel\" which was produced by Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl

  Youth In Revolt) and Gina Kwon (Me and You and Everyone We Know) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is currently available on DVD through Palm Pictures. “The Motel” is the recipient of the Humanitas Prize as well as the top jury prizes from numerous festivals

  “The Motel” was also nominated for Best First Feature Film by The Independent Spirit Awards. Michael was honored with a N.E.A. Artist’s Residency Grant at The MacDowell Colony. Michael is recipient of the Geri Ashur Award in screenwriting through the New York Foundation for the Arts. Michael also received a fellowship through the ABC / DGA New Talent Television Directing Program. Michael’s second feature film “West 32nd” which features John Cho (Harold & Kumar

  Star Trek) and Grace Park (Battlestar Galactica

  Hawaii 5-0) premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival and is currently available on DVD through Pathfinder Pictures. Michael also received the Overseas Korea Filmmaker Award at the Pusan International Film Festival in 2007. Michael’s most recent film \"Knots\" written by Kimberly-Rose Wolter (Tre) and featuring Illeana Douglas (Ghost World

  Cape Fear) and Sung Kang (Fast Five

  Better Luck Tomorrow) premiered at the Hawaii International Film Festival in 2011. His work on “Knots” also lead to him working as a guest director on the award-winning viral web series “Easy To Assemble” by Illeana Douglas featuring Ed Begley Jr.

  Justine Bateman (Family Ties)

  Fred WIllard

  Tim Meadows (Saturday Night Live)

  Patricia Heaton (The Middle)

  Craig Bierko

  Corey Feldman and David Henrie (Wizards of Waverly Place) among others.

  Filmmaker

  KANG is MAN

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Television Pilot Writing (TVF 4640)\n\nCourse Level: Undergraduate\n\nCourse focused on the half-hour and hour-long TV pilot. Students tap into their personal story to create an original TV Pilot

  developing character bios

  pitches

  beat sheet

  and outline that will culminate in an original sitcom or drama pilot script and proposal.

  Adjunct Instructor

  California State University-Los Angeles

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Television documentary directed by Sharon Yamato.\n\nMoving Walls tells the story of what happened to the scores of barracks used to house 120

  000 Japanese Americans during WWII. At one camp built on government land in a remote area in Wyoming

  they were sold for a dollar apiece to homesteaders. The story delves into the intersection of the mass detention and homesteading farmers and is told from the dual perspective of those taken from their homes and forced to live in these shoddily constructed buildings during wartime and those who voluntarily chose to start new lives in them after the war

  i.e.

  the American nightmare that became the American dream. At a time when race and ethnicity continue to raise questions about issues surrounding immigration and civil rights

  the film examines the mass detention through interviews with former incarcerees who returned to the West Coast as well as homesteaders who live in the buildings today in the heart of middle America.

  Story Consultant

  Moving Walls : American Nightmare to American Dream

  Greater San Diego Area

  Advanced Script Writing for Television and Film Guest Lecturer

  San Diego State University

  Directors Guild of America

  Overseas Korea Foundation

  Humanitas Prize

  humanitas is a non-profit organization that honors and empowers film and television writers whose work explores the human condition in a nuanced

  meaningful way which brings the global community closer. \n\nA signature HUMANITAS story:\n\n Challenges us to use our freedom to grow and develop\n\n Confronts us with our individual responsibility

  and examines the consequences of our choices\n\n Entertains us with fully realized characters and elegantly crafted stories. \n\nThe overarching goal of HUMANITAS is to promote peace and love in the human family–one story at a time.

  Humanitas

  NBC Universal Television Directing Fellowship

  The Directing Fellowship Program is designed to take directors accomplished in their respective fields (features

  commercials and/or music videos) and give them the opportunity to work alongside episodic television directors.

  NBC Universal Television

  ABC Directing Fellowship

  Launched in 2001 the Disney | ABC Directing Program is one of the longest-running programs of its kind in the television industry. The two-season program has launched the episodic careers of several directors including Seith Mann (The Walking Dead

  Elementary)

  Zetna Fuentes (Grey’s Anatomy

  Jane the Virgin)

  Nzingha Stewart (The Fosters

  Pretty Little Liars)

  Jaffar Mahmood (The Real O'Neals

  Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) and Jude Weng (Crazy

  Ex-Girlfriend

  Fresh Off The Boat).\n\nIn addition to possessing the right skillset to direct television

  it is imperative to develop strong and lasting relationships with industry decision makers. Participating directors have secured a number of directing assignments on series such as ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal; Freeform’s Pretty Little Liars and The Fosters; and Disney Channel’s K.C. Undercover.

  ABC Creative Talent Development & Inclusion

  Sundance / NHK International Filmmakers Award

  The Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award was first established in 1996 by Sundance Institute in partnership with NHK to celebrate 100 years of cinema and to honor and support emerging independent filmmakers whose originality

  talent

  and vision we believe will contribute significantly to the future of world cinema.

  Sundance Institute / NHK

  Best Director Short Film Category

  http://www.ifsfilm.com

  Los Angeles IFS Film Festival

  NEA Arts Fellowship

  The mission of The MacDowell Colony is to nurture the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which they can produce enduring works of the imagination.\n\nThe sole criterion for acceptance is artistic excellence

  which The MacDowell Colony defines in a pluralistic and inclusive way. We encourage applications from artists representing the widest possible range of perspectives and demographics

  and who are investigating an unlimited array of inquiries and concerns.\n\nWe apply the same egalitarian standards for all those who serve MacDowell either in a staff

  volunteer

  or representative capacity.

  MacDowell Artist Colony