Join the Asian American Arts Alliance for their July town hall at ICP, welcoming filmmakers, creators, producers, and distributors to share their projects and resources with the AAPI creative community. After the program, make new connections during the post hall potluck, hosted in the ICP Café.
This month’s featured presenters include: Munir Atalla, head of production & acquisitions at Watermelon Pictures and former creative writing strategist at Netflix; John Woo, executive director of Asian CineVision and the Asian American International Film Festival; and filmmaker Morrison Gong to share their insights of navigating the film and photography industry in New York.
Please note that ICP’s museum is closed on Tuesdays. This event is free. RSVP is required to pitch, but pitching is not required to attend.
About Munir Atalla
Munir Atalla is the Head of Production & Acquisitions at Watermelon Pictures. He previously oversaw creative writing strategy for growing and emerging markets at Netflix. Informed by his background as an investigative reporter, Munir has produced projects for A24, Peacock, and NBC News. His work for PBS Frontline was nominated for a DuPont Award for Journalistic Excellence in 2020. He teaches filmmaking courses at Columbia University and Hofstra University, and his work has played at numerous festivals including The Aspen Shorts Fest, The New Yorker Screening Room, and BlackStar Film Festival. www.muniratalla.com
About John Woo
John Woo is co-founder and Executive Director of Woo Art International, a New York based creative services and visual communications studio founded in 1980. Woo Art creates award winning visual media for a diverse base of clients in the communications, broadcast promotion, exhibit, and entertainment industries. He is the Board Chair for Asian CineVision (ACV), the New York based not-for-profit media arts organization and presenter of the Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF). In 2007, he became Acting Director of ACV and in 2010, Executive Director. www.asiancinevision.org
About Morrison Gong
Morrison Gong works across photography, writing, performance and moving images. They invoke the body as a site of haunting, wounding, conjuring and mythmaking. Working with insects, aquatic vertebrates, relics, ceremonial objects--messengers of the sacred and the underworld—they engage their practice as psychic archaeology, unearthing the dead, the desired and the denied. Their video works have been shown at Anthology Film Archives, Microscope Gallery, Vox Populi Gallery, CROSSROADS presented by San Francisco Cinematheque, Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival, among others. Their photography has been featured on It’s Nice That, Whitehot Magazine and Lomography Magazine. Gong received their BFA from Parsons School of Design and their MA at the New School for Social Research. They are based in Brooklyn, NY. https://morrisongong.com/
About A4’s Town Hall
Town Hall is A4’s bi-monthly community gathering event that features presentations, pitches, and power networking over a potluck meal. We welcome artists of all disciplines, as well as arts organizations, to share upcoming projects, find collaborators, or discover new opportunities in a lively space.
