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China Crew
Ya-Hsuan Huang, Director/Producer/Camera
Ya-Hsuan Huang is a documentary filmmaker, media producer and youth educator based in Berkeley, California. Design clients include Goldman Sachs and Columbia University. Through the Negev, her recent documentary short on Sudanese refugees in Israel, has been screened in venues around the world. Ms. Huang is a graduate of Yale University and the Media Studies program at the New School in New York City.
Yi Han, Producer/Co-director
Yi Han is an independent filmmaker who just came back to her hometown Sichuan, China after she graduated from Carleton University, Canada with a Master’s in Journalism. She has worked as a reporter, editor and news anchor in Sichuan TV station for four years before she went to Canada. She is now working on a feature-length documentary Last Train Home directed by Lixin Fan and supported by Sundance Fund and Jan Vrijman Fund.
Nobuhiro Awata, Camera
Nobuhiro Awata is an experienced video producer and director, photographer and audio technician. Born and raised in Japan, Nobuhiro lived in New York City for five years and now is living in Taipei where he is studying for a degree in Computer Science.
Irene Carolina Herrera, Camera
Irene Carolina Herrera is a photographer, documentary filmmaker and journalist based in Japan with more than 10 years of experience working on media related projects in Venezuela, Brazil, Spain, France, Miami, India and Japan. Irene is a member of Temple University where she teaches courses on Filmmaking, Media Studies and the History of Documentary. She currently serves different Tokyo-based NGOs such as Friends of MSSRF, as Media Advisor, and OXFAM. Among her most recent projects is a documentary on female self-help groups in Southern India. After finishing her B.A. in Audiovisual Journalism, she came to Japan as a Monbukagakusho scholar to pursue a Masters degree in filmmaking. Currently she is writing her Ph.D. dissertation on photographic anthropology, “A Culture seen through the lens: Brazilian Nikkejin”, at Nihon University. Irene is finishing a Diploma in NGO Management and has just completed an international course at the United Nations University in Peacebuilding. Last year she exhibited images of the Japanese Brazilian descendants series at the prestigious Nikon Salon and in 2005 received the Gran Prix at the Expo Aichi Friendship Film Festival for a documentary on Venezuela and Japan titled “Kodo wo Awaseba”. Her articles and photographs have been featured in Variety, El Nacional, Metropolis, Dune and The Japan Times. Irene is passionate about world religions and the millenary teachings of the Vedic tradition. http://www.irechan.net; http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20061216a1.html
Bastien Robilliard, Camera
Bastien Robilliard is a French engineer, with a degree in Computer Science, who has worked in Paris at the National Institute of Audiovisual and Canal+, developing applications for audiovisual contents description. He arrived in Shanghai in 2004 and started working on video production, camera operating and editing. Bastien works on corporate and training videos for international groups and video reports for press agencies and institutions and has shot all over China.
Hiroko Sumikura, Camera
Hiroko Sumikura is a freelance video director/editor in Tokyo, Japan. Adjunct professor of Film and Media Art at Temple University Japan Campus.
Fang Liang, Still Photographer
Fang Liang went back to journalism school as a 2nd career, and interned at various newspapers in the States, such as the Weekend Pinnacles at Hollister and at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He started a freelancing career soon after, with some local papers in the Bay Area, and some overseas papers. He is currently based in Hong Kong and Beijing.
David Evan Harris, Still Photographer
David Evan Harris is the Executive Director of the Global Lives Project and a Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California. David lived in Brazil from 2004-2007 and has experience in print and video journalism work. He holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MA in Sociology from the University of São Paulo.
Chieko Kato, Still Photographer
Chieko Kato is from a small, traditional city called Takayama in the mountains of Japan. From a young age she was eager to see the world, and has made it her mission to travel at every chance she gets. In between extended bouts of travel, she has studied commercial photography and worked for 5 or so years in New York as a freelance photographer, photographer's assistant, and photo retoucher. In 2007, she returned to Japan and has been keeping himself busy as a freelance photographer, producer and interpreter for small video shoots, and as a studio assistant. She participated in the Tokyo Global Lives shoot in 2007, as a still photographer and production assistant.
Major Tian, Production Assistant / Translation
Major Tian is a junior studying Legal English (English language in the context of law) in Southwest University of Political Science and Law. He worked as a part-time translator for Ted Koppel Group of Discovery Channel last year to make a documentary on the city of Chongqing and China: The People's Republic of Capitalism. He also did a volunteer job for 2008 Global Sourcing Fair in Chongqing, working as a translator and receptionist and has once served as a tour guide for a group of social workers from the US visiting Chongqing.
Christina Liu, Production Assistant / Translation
Christina Liu is a graduate of Southwest China University, majoring in English and currently a translator in a foreign-funded company investing in steel and oil. After living in Chongqing for 4 years, she is happy to be back in Sichuan, where she was born.
Yujiao Qing, Translation
Kaihua Xiu, Translation
Vivian Wenjun Zhou, Translation
Jerry Zee, Translation
Yashu Zhou (周亚鉥), Translation
Jianfeng Zhan (詹楗峰), Translation
Neo Zhang, Translation
Dan Zhu, Translation
Tina Brunner, Translation
Marion Bouget, Translation
Dewi Setyawati, Translation
Eri Kurniawan, Translation
Ana Hirsch-Pels, Translation
Yasmin Mahmoud, Translation
Simone Lang, Translation
Ron Ture, Translation
Nguyen Thanh Tri, Translation
Serena Zanzu, Translation
Maria Fokin, Translation
Ana Lakčević, Translation
Nataša Bošković, Translation
Giulia Colapietro, Translation
Pengfei Wang, Translation Support
Pengfei Wang is the Vice-Dean of Communications at Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu. Pengfei teaches 4th level English translation to seniors in the department.
