Tufts University

Shanghai Theater Academy

Hamilton College

Capital University of Economics and Business

Bellaire High School

Filmmaker at Volchan Productions, LLC

Boulder, Colorado, United States

- Konovalenko: Stories in Stone' is a feature-length documentary about a Soviet gem sculptor who endured persecution, censorship and self-imposed exile for the sake of his art. His sculptures celebrate the richness of Russian life, culture and history and are a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. 'Konovalenko: Stories in Stone' will include interviews of Konovalenko’s family and associates, curators at the Kremlin Museum, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (exhibits only public display of Konovalenko's work in the US), the Ekaterinburg Museum of a Fine Art, and the Pavel Bazhov House Museum, private collectors of Konovalenko's work, scholars of Russian/Soviet Literature and Art History. It will be narrated by internationally recognized National Public Radio correspondent Corey Flintoff. Stylistically, the film will reflect the colorful, lyrical, detailed, and nuanced quality of Konovalenko’s work. It will include excerpts from Soviet films, cartoons and footage of ballet productions, Russian language excerpts from works of literature, works of fine art alongside propaganda posters, stamps, tchotchke, and archival photographs.Through decades of Soviet upheaval and Cold War tension, Vasily Konovalenko (1929-1989) revived and refashioned Russia's gem sculpting tradition, creating sculptures that reveal his enduring inner freedom. He created movement out of some of the earth’s hardest substances, just as he carved out a creative life under oppressive conditions. The film will reflect on Soviet and Cold War history, the experience of the Soviet emigre to the United States, and the role of the artist in society. It is at once culturally specific and universally compelling.

Konovalenko: Stories in Stone Documentary

Director, Producer, Editor

Volchan Productions LLC

President

Learn the unsung stories of the women artists, educators and activists, whose pioneering spirits, in the early days of Colorado history, forged today's landscape of opportunity.Capturing the social, racial, and gender dynamics of a defining era in American history (1870-1970), 'Pioneers' acknowledges the lives, works and enduring legacies of four dynamic Colorado women; artists, educators, and social activists, and how their influence continues to shape today's cultural landscape.The film's subjects include:Helen Henderson Chain (1849-1892)Jean Wirt Sherwood (1846-1938) Muriel Sibell Wolle (1898-1977) Eve Drewelowe (1899-1988) This film was produced in collaboration with the University of Colorado, Boulder's Art Museum exhibit 'Pioneers: Women Artists of Boulder 1898-1950' and was on display at the museum from September 2016 - Feb 2017. It was executive produced by Kirk Ambrose, Professor & Chair of the Department of Art and Art History, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Pioneers Documentary

Director, Producer, Camera, Editor

Produced a tribute video to recognize the generous contributions and inspirational achievements of Roundup River Ranch founding medical director, Dr. Lia Gore. Gore was presented with the organization's inaugural Superhero Award. Roundup River Ranch enriches the lives of children with serious illnesses and their families by offering free, medically-supported camp programs that provide unforgettable opportunities to discover joy, friendships, and confidence. One of their core values is 'Superheroes are everywhere.' Through intentional, empowering experiences they help kids and families discover their own powers, conquer fears and leave camp feeling more confident than ever. Dr. Lia Gore is a superhero who leads by example and touches innumerable lives with her brilliance, selflessness, passion, and kindness. It was a pleasure to make this short video in her honor.

Roundup River Ranch

Freelance Video Producer

Site/Sounds is Black Cube's podcast, which features behind the scenes stories on our Artist Fellows and their pop up art exhibitions. Episode 1 takes the listers to Gold Hill, a small mining town in Colorado, to learn more about the Gold Hill Art Project and artists' projects.The Gold Hill Art Project brings together a series of site-specific contemporary art installations situated in cabins and open spaces in the historic mining town of Gold Hill. Three Black Cube Artist Fellows – Molly Berger, Jennifer Ling Datchuk and Eric Stewart – have created new works that respond to the local history and surrounding landscape. Collectively these artworks draw together layers of past and present. They form a walking art tour that offers visitors alternative ways of experiencing this unique place.See images and learn more about the exhibition at our website: <a href="http://blackcubeart.org/exhibition/gold-hill-art-projectBlack">blackcubeart.org/exhibition/gold-hill-art-projectBlack</a> Cube is a nonprofit, experimental art museum that operates nomadically. Without the traditional boundaries of a physical building, Black Cube exists primarily through partnering with our artist fellows to commission pop up art experiences.

Black Cube

Podcast Producer Editor Sound Engineer

Aby Warburg, (1866-1929), an art historian of startling originality, came from the famous Warburg banking family in Hamburg Germany. Already in his teens, the first of seven children, he made a deal with his next oldest brother, to forfeit his right to take over the family firm in exchange for full financial support in buying all the books that he would ever want. The library he assembled would become a refuge of scholarship. In 1933, with the Nazi takeover and the deprivation of Jewish rights, 60,000 books, photographs and papers were shipped to London to become the Warburg Library and Institute housed at the University of London.This one hour documentary on the life and work of Aby Warburg traces the development of his ideas in their historical context. From his early studies on iconography of the Italian Renaissance to his ventures in the American Southwest observing Hopi and Zuni ritual dances in 1895, Warburg sought the legacy of ancient Greece in the images and symbols of cultures, which he followed through iconographic studies that he pioneered.

Aby Warburg Metamorphosis and Memory (Documentary)

Editor, Camera, Sound

Family Affairs is a podcast where we discuss everything from online dating, to divorce, to common (and not-so-common) sexual issues with Licensed Sex Therapist, Lisa Thomas, Family Social Worker, Jen Siegal, and Show Host, Ben Robbins. Each has two kids and a progressive, upbeat approach to modern parenting and the issues facing our families. Join us for a fun, adult conversation and get answers to all of the questions you're afraid to ask.You can subscribe to the podcast and listen to episodes at: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/family-affairs/id1037947794?mt=2Or%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Ffamilyaffairspodcast">https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/family-affairs/id1037947794?mt=2Or:https://soundcloud.com/familyaffairspodcast</a>

smART Studio

Consulting Producer / Editor

The AmeriCooking Show is a 262 (four-minute) episode English-language web series introducing American food culture to a young Chinese audience. In the kitchen, young American chefs demonstrate how to prepare their favorite home cooked meals, snacks and regional treats (think Jambalaya, Fish tacos, Funnel Cake, S'mores, Matzo Balls, Meatball Subs, Horchata, Gingerbread Cookies, etc). Out on the streets of Los Angeles and Boulder, the audience takes a bite out of fusion food trucks and farmers markets, quenches their thirst at craft breweries and tea factories, sees where it all comes from in urban gardens and dairy farms, and chows down at hotdog stands and chocolateries.As director/producer/editor, my responsibilities included:Casting, location scouting, shoot schedule, budget, equipment rental/purchase, costume, directing crew, communicating with the Beijing-based client in solely in Chinese, post-production.I shot 240 episodes in 20 days of production. I hosted the remaining 22 episodes that were shot outside of the kitchen.

AmeriCooking Show - for Whisper Media Co. Ltd., Beijing

Director / Producer / Editor

As Business Development Coordinator for the young entertainment marketing company, N87 Creative, I spearheaded the internal marketing drive, assisted the television and theatrical creative directors, and served as a commercial producer.Responsibilities included: setting up and attending meetings with studio and production company marketing teams, composing and distributing monthly newsletters, heading social media campaigns, managing the company website. As an assistant to the theatrical and television creative directors I reported weekly on the marketing status, rolled phone calls, scheduled travel and meetings, maintained and circulated the company project schedule, and assisted productions as the on-set photographer.

N87 Creative

Business Development Coordinator

Bona Fide Productions

Development Intern

THE PASSAGES OF WALTER BENJAMIN. A documentary film.55 min. 2014.In 1933, Walter Benjamin, one of the most brilliant literary and cultural critics of his time, fled Berlin when the Nazis took over and headed for Paris. There he sat, at the Bibliothèque nationale, working in poverty and relative obscurity on his most important project, “The Arcades Project.”With the backdrop of totalitarianism spreading across the European continent, Benjamin explored the origins of modernity. Praising the poet Charles Baudelaire and employing his emblematic characters especially the flâneur and the rag picker, Benjamin wanted to counter the “false semblance of totality.” This enormous incomplete study is both a collection of sources for a radical history of 19th century Paris and the basis for an allegorical critique of European fascism in the 1930s.This film presents the “The Arcades Project” in the context of Benjamin’s life and times. True to the spirit of Benjamin, “fragments” from his life and work in the 1930s will be points of entry to explore his wider biography, from his family and childhood in Berlin, to his unconventional education, his radio plays for children, his travel to Moscow, and his life in exile in Paris. The film addresses Benjamin’s concerns as a German-Jewish intellectual, his friendships, and his failed romances.The story is told, as much as possible, through Benjamin’s own writings, his correspondence, and quotations from The Arcades Project. The film incorporates footage and photographs of nineteenth and twentieth-century Paris, particularly the arcades, interviews with leading scholars, photographs of Benjamin, his family and associates, his handwritten manuscripts, notes, and letters.

The Passages of Walter Benjamin (documentary directed by Judith Wechsler)

Editor

As a research and development assistant, I support the Head of Development & Production at Gail Mutrux's (Donnie Brasco, Nurse Betty, Kinsey, Rain Man) Pretty Pictures Productions by writing book and script coverage, researching story ideas and subsidiary rights availability, as well as rolling calls and other administrative duties.

Pretty Pictures Productions (Gail Mutrux)

Untitled Michael Mann Project

Assistant to Tang Wei, Translator, Assistant to Unit Publicist

As a producer, I have been responsible for Budgeting, Call Sheets, Run Down, and making sure things run smooth on set (AD work). I work in a Mandarin environment. All tasks were completed using Mandarin and English skills (as an interpreter for a foreign DP).As a First and Second Camera Assistant, I pulled focus, slated, and managed video equipment on TV Commercial shoots.

Freelance

Producer/Video Camera Assistant and Operator

WHAT I SEE is a global study of women’s self-perception and self-expression. Part educational project, part art project, <a href="http://whatiseeproject.com">whatiseeproject.com</a> will launch early in 2013 as an active online forum where women around the world of different backgrounds are encouraged to respond to a series of prompts.The goal is to see similarities and differences with a fresh eye in order to open up a deeper, broader dialogue around what we see as women – from our past to our present, and into the future. As one of ten directors around the world, I am video recording interviews with women in China, about the challenges they face in life, their dreams, their perception of what it means to be a woman, and the risks they have taken and overcome in life.

Reflections Productions Limited

What I See Documentary Project - China Documentarian

In this dynamic bilingual environment, I focused on the production of an 18-member-cast television pilot episode for the series,The Lane, directed by Julliet Pan. My work involved casting, location scouting, organizing actors' rehearsals, creating production rundowns and call sheets, interfacing with food and location sponsors, leading an aggressive call for extras, and coordinating on-set activities.

She & Jul Films

Associate Producer

As the personal linguistics coach to actress Zhang Ziyi, I focus on the expansion of vocabulary and colloquial expression recognition as well as on stressing an attentiveness to the subtleties in pronunciation of the American-English phonology.  My off-time is spent on the set of Wong Kar-Wai's The Grandmasters, observing the auteur's artistic process and developing my on-set technical Chinese vocabulary.

Zhang Ziyi

Personal American-English Linguistic Coach

As a contributing reporter, I conducted interviews of various subjects for the following stories: Brazil Faces Obstacles in Preparations for Rio Olympics, Haitians Take Arduous Path to Brazil and Jobs, An Uneasy Search for Truth as Ghosts From Military Rule Start to Stir, Influx of Haitians into the Amazon prompts Immigration Debate in Brazil.My responsibilities as an intern include story background research, determining and contacting appropriate interviewees, conducting interviews (Portuguese, Spanish, English), scheduling management, video narration, story proposals and administrative work.

The New York Times

Contributing reporter and Intern

Story development and 2nd Camera operator for shooting of "When Adam Walks In," entry to the Shanghai 2012 48 Hour Film Project under the direction of Big American Films Director, Evan Ricks.

48 Hour Film Project

2nd Camera

Written, directed and produced by Judith Glatzer Wechsler2011, 60 min.This documentary film is about Nahum N. Glatzer (1903-1990), a leading Judaic scholar who exemplified scholarly integrity and the revivification of Judaic studies in a time of exile. The film explores the context of German-Jewish learning in which he developed and the theological, literary and philosophical worlds to which he contributed. A foremost disciple of the philosopher Franz Rosenzweig, Glatzer succeeded Martin Buber at the University of Frankfurt in the sole position in Jewish studies in Germany. The Glatzers immigrated to Palestine in 1933 and then to the US in 1938, where he first served as editor-in-chief of Schocken Books and presented among the first English editions of the work of Franz Kafka. Glatzer was author of groundbreaking studies on Rosenzweig, Buber, Jewish history, midrashic literature, Wissenschaft des Judentums, and the connection between the Book of Job, the motif of the Tree of Knowledge, and Kafka's writings. Glatzer went on to develop the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis, which became the example for departments across the US. The film explores his life as a paradigm of movement from culture to culture and an emblem of what lives on in the transition, influencing many students and training a generation of Judaic scholars.It was screened at The Harvard Divinity School, The Sorbonne, Goethe University Frankfurt Am Main, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Alliance Israelite, Brandeis University, etc.

I Am a Memory Come Alive: Nahum Glatzer and the German Jewish Tradition (documentary)

Carlos Cruz-Diez and the Labyrinth of Deconditioning (Jan-May 2011- Producer, Director, Editor, 1hr) This hour-long documentary for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston's Glassell School of Art provides a look into the artistic vision and personal philosophy of renowned Venezuelan Kinetic and Op artist, Carlos Cruz-Diez (interviewed) and it's influence over a group of artists at the Glassell School who aim to realize his unfinished Labyrinth of Deconditioning. I Am a Memory Come Alive: Nahum Glatzer and the German-Jewish Tradition (May-September 2011- Editor. Directed by: Judith Wechsler, 57min)An account of the life and legacy of influential Jewish Studies scholar, Professor Nahum N. Glatzer, who shared with generations of American students, the philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber, the works of Franz Kafka, and  a scholarly method founded on objectivity and academic integrity. He lived a life in transition, from the Eastern Europe rabbinical path, to the University of Frankfurt, to the perils of Palestine, and finally as a renowned professor of Judaic Studies at Brandeis University in Boston. Independent thinking, Glatzer sought and provided an answer to the challenge of reconciling Judaism with the realities of a modern world.The Confucius Project (October 2011, currently in post-production, Director, Editor)A film documenting the journey of eight American high school students as they study Beijing Opera, a Chinese national treasure. The students must navigate language barriers, theatrical stylistic differences, and a foreign culture as they travel across China, preparing to represent their country at a UNESCO International Theater Institute conference. Their adventure is a testament to the power of cross-cultural exchange to generate innovation and affirm those universalities which overshadow cultural differences. PA/Script Supervisor- Red Line Production, Charles River Media, Marranos

Freelance Filmmaker

Director, Editor, Production Assistant, Script Supervisor

I worked on Pre-Production; Script coverage, research and development- finding potential subjects for a documentary, preparing the research binder, finding potential science bloggers and blogging for their NOVA series, finding needed images, call sheets and movements. Head of Productions, Tobey List declared that I was the first intern to prepare for her a call sheet without a single mistake.Post-production- organizing receipts and release forms. Sitting in on editing sessions.

Seftel Productions

Intern

I founded the Subtitled International Film Festival in the Summer of 2010, a branch of Houston's Skydive artist collaboration group. Participating artists were chosen to give a pre-show lecture on an international cinema of their choice select a film for outdoor screening for the public. I used social networking sites to attract audience members and participants.For Summer 2010 screenings, I presented Chinese director, Zhang Yang's "Shower" (洗澡), and gave a pre-show lecture on the history of Chinese Cinema. For Winter 2011 screening, I presented director, Chen Kaige's "Together" (和你在一起).

Skydive Subtitled International Film Festival

Founder/Co-Curator

My responsibilities included: digitizing dvds with video furnace for online showings, resolving technical/equipment problems and setting up screenings, organizing and maintaining the 10,000+ DVD archives, assisting students and professors via phone and in person.

Erika 康亭玉

Erika 康亭玉