ANN HU Writer / Director

Writer, producer and director Ann Hu's debut Shadow Magic (2000) won both the Chinese Academy Award and Presidential Award in China for Best Film. It was also at Tokyo International Film Festival Nominated for Grand Prix and Best Actor awards; it was at the Golden Horse Film Festival in Taiwan, and won the Best Adapted Screenplay and Audience Award and was nominated for Best Director. The film premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Sony Classics in 2001. The film performed as one of the top box office hits in China that year.

Following Shadow Magic, Ann Hu produced and directed "Beauty Remains". The film was at numerous film festivals and released internationally by Emerging Pictures in 2005. Again, the film became the top box office performer of that period in China.

Confetti was the third feature film Ann Hu wrote and directed, based on real events and her personal story.

Hu serves as trustee at IndieCollect, and was a board member at Film at Lincoln Center.

HAN JIA NV Executive Producer

Han Jia Nv is a Chinese writer, producer, and Founder/Owner of the Zheng Fu Film Fund. Notable credits include being an Executive Producer of Wolf Warrior 2, directed by Wu Jing, which reached a box office of $870 million in 2017; writer of Dying to Survive, directed by Wen Mu Ye, which reached a box office of $450 million and won Best Original Screenplay at the Taiwan Gold Horse Film Festival in 2018; Executive Producer of Crazy Alien, directed by Ning Hao which hit $327 million in box office in 2019; and Producer of A Cool Fish, directed by Rao Xiaozhi in 2019. Her most current project as an Executive Producer and Director of Development is Ann Hu’s 2019 US/Chinese Co-Production Confetti.

She has her Master of Art from the Beijing Film Acedemy in Film Directing.

JOSH GREEN Producer

Founder of Jagman Productions, Josh has produced, represented, or distributed more than 60 films in a near 20 year time span with ten years spent as the Head of Sales & Distribution for Ira Deutchman’s Emerging Pictures. His recent production credits include documentary By Sidney Lumet; music documentaries Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey and I Want My Name Back on seminal bands Journey and The Sugarhill Gang, respectively; and Lifetime movie Seasons of Love produced alongside Taraji P. Henson. He’s further an Executive Producer on the South African western, Five Fingers for Marseilles, which was released theatrically in the US to critical acclaim in Fall 2018. Josh’s next scripted film to hit the marketplace is the US/China co-production Confetti, which will be released in the US in Summer 2021. He is producing four documentaries currently in development/production: The Great China Baseball Hunt, an untitled film on Brexit whistleblower Shahmir Sanni, an untitled film on Harvey Weinstein victim and model/activist Ambra Gutierrez, and a documentary on the Negro Baseball Leagues, directed by Sam Pollard and produced alongside Radical Media and Questlove. He is further executive producing a scripted limited series with Alcon TV and director, Anya Adams, on the Negro Baseball Leagues and the first and only woman elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, Effa Manley. And he’s producing a film adaptation of the Reginald Lewis biography, Why Should White Guys Have All The Fun, on Reginald's achievement on Wall Street as the first black billionaire. Lastly, he is in development on a scripted narrative on the Journey and Arnel Pineda musical story.

ZHUO SHUNGUO Producer

Mr. Zhuo is the producer, distributor and Founder/CEO of Dragonmark Pictures Co.,Ltd.

Zhuo has been producing/distributing films in China for decades. A living legend, Mr. Zhuo is known for his unconventional approach in packaging and distributing films and making them household name blockbusters, regardless of the film budget and subject genre.

Zhuo, being CEO of the then Beijing Forbidden City Distribution Company, is well known for creating the year end seasonal film market in China with such blockbusters as The Dream Factory (“甲方乙方”), Be There or Be Square (“不见不散”), and Sorry Baby (“没完没了”), directed by Feng Xiaogang, and bringing about the boom in China’s film market.

While in Beijing Forbidden City, and later in Beijing Chen Tian Entertainment and Le Shi Entertainment company, Zhuo—as CEO, also produced and/or distributed such famed films as Days Without Lei Feng (”远离雷锋的日子“, directed by Kang Ning), The Red Lovers (“红色恋人”, directed by Ye Da Ying), Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons (“卧虎藏龙”, directed by Ang Lee), Baby In Love (“恋爱中的宝贝,” directed by Li Shao Hong), Red Cliff (“赤壁”, directed by John Woo), and The Warlords (“投名状”, directed by Chen Ke Xin) amongst many others.

Zhuo handled distribution on both Ann Hu’s previous films Shadow Magic and Beauty Remains in China. Head of Dragon Films, Zhuo is the producer of Confetti, and will be in charge of releasing the film in the Greater China area. Zhuo is also Deputy Secretary of China Film Literature Association.

ERIC GIOVON Director of Photography

Eric Giovon is a photographer and cinematographer born and raised in the pulse of New York City -- a place with textured undertones that influence the heart and soul of his work. Giovon's keen awareness of light and shadow stems from an upbringing in his father's camera store in Brooklyn, where his creativity developed alongside the emulsions in their darkroom. Giovon has lived in Miami, Mexico City, Italy, and Greece; and draws upon these environmental influences in his work. He has served as Director of Photography on over 100 productions (films, documentaries, music videos, and commercials).

Throughout the years, Eric has had the privilege to work with distinguished and talented artists such as director Barry Levinson, Bob Giraldi, David Field, and David Eustace and actors Jude Law, Jennifer Connelly, Andie MacDowell, Carry Elwes, and Danny Aiello.

For four years he shot the U.S. Open Series commercials which have aired nationally; featuring all of the top players in the world: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Serena Williams,...., etc. For 3 years he shot commercials for Caterpillar. In that time period he won 2 Telly Awards for Best Cinematography.

Eric’s most recent work includes internationally shot feature film Confetti (US & China), directed by Golden Horse winner Ann Hu and starring Helen Slater, Amy Irving, and Zhu Zhu (Cloud Atlas); June which stars the acclaimed actor Aaron Kwok. The Suspect, starring Emmy Award winner Sterling K. Brown, William Sadler, and Mekhi Phifer is currently streaming on Netflix. The documentary This is What We Make, produced by Acura and Amazon is currently airing on Amazon Prime.

Eric has also shot numerous music videos (50 cent, Future, Busta Rhymes, Nikki Manoj, among others) as well as Commercials such as Citibank, Western Union, DeLeon Tequila, Brooks Brothers to name a few.

Giovon has a unique vision that calls for a very specific breed of client -- one who dares to reach beyond safe conventions and strives for the undefinable. His photography is being exhibited this summer and fall in Crete, Greece.

FREDERIC FASANO Director of Photography, China

Frederic Fasano has worked as a filmmaker since 1999 when he shot Asia Argento's first feature, Scarlet Diva. He has worked on productions in both narrative and documentary forms shooting in a variety of countries, cultures, and landscapes including Greenland, Thailand, Japan, Norway, and Brazil. For over five years, Frederic collaborated with renowned Italian filmmaker Dario Argento with whom he shot three features. In 2009, he moved to the U.S. to further his passion for capturing diverse images and stories. Since arriving, he has worked on several feature narrative films as well as shorts and documentaries, and was awarded Best Cinematography (Feature) at the 2017 Woods Hole Film Festival. Lately he has been focusing his work on TV projects including Too Cute (Animal Planet), Almost There (DIRECTV), and Sneaky Pete (Amazon) He recently completed 26 episodes of Sesame Workshop’s The Helpsters (Apple TV+). Frederic is represented by Alexander Creatives in New York City. Frederic was born in Denmark and raised in Copenhagen and Noto, Sicily. He first developed an interest in photography as a teenager documenting the southeastern Sicilian landscape for a local newspaper and exhibition. He had a photography studio in Milan before completing studies at Scuola del Cinema di Milano after which he opened his own production company. Frederic believes the power of film is because, as Fellini said, “cinema is the most direct way to enter into competition with God.” 

MARIE-PIERRE RENAUD Editor

Marie-Pierre Renaud’s capacity to work as an editor in a variety of languages and formats was portented at the start of her editing career.

Renaud cut her teeth editing foreign news reportages for French Television. Progressing quickly to longer formats, documentaries and feature film with Claude Lelouch and Milos Forman, lead Renaud to live and work in NYC, training in tandem in 35mm and digital formats.

The last 30 years Renaud has managed a trans-Atlantic career based in both, Paris and NYC, editing independant feature films with directors including Peter Weir, Taylor Hackford and Jean-Paul Salomé, alongside documentaries, TV series and commercials in Paris. 

With her reputation established, emerging foreign films directors sought Renaud out, leading her to edit a variety of independant, foreign, documentaries and films from Morocco, Algeria, Israel, China and in Lebanon with the award winning independant feature « The Kite ».

CHRISTOPHER TIN Composer

Christopher Tin is a two-time Grammy-winning composer of concert and media music. Time Magazine calls his music 'rousing' and 'anthemic', while The Guardian calls it 'joyful' and 'an intelligent meeting of melody and theme'. His music has been performed and premiered in many of the world's most prestigious venues: Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Hollywood Bowl, the United Nations, and Carnegie Hall, where he had an entire concert devoted to his music. He has also been performed by ensembles diverse as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Metropole Orkest, and US Navy Band.

His song "Baba Yetu", originally written for the video game Civilization IV, is a modern choral standard, and the first piece of music written for a video game ever to win a Grammy Award. His debut album, the multi-lingual song cycle Calling All Dawns, won him a second Grammy in 2011 for Best Classical Crossover Album, and his follow-up release The Drop That Contained the Sea debuted at #1 on Billboard's classical charts, and premiered to a sold-out audience at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium. His third album To Shiver the Sky also debuted at #1, and was funded by a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign that raised $221,415, smashing all previous classical music crowdfunding records.

Tin is signed to an exclusive record deal with Universal under their legendary Decca label, and published by Concord and Boosey & Hawkes. He works out of his own custom-built studio in Santa Monica, CA.

ZHU ZHU (Lan)

Zhu Zhu is an acclaimed and award-winning Chinese actress who has starred in many films both in China and the United States. Zhu Zhu recently wrapped production on Chinese Academy Award-winning director Ann Hu’s U.S./Chinese Co-Production CONFETTI, starring opposite Amy Irving and Helen Slater. She stars opposite Boyd Holbrook and Beau Bridges in Juan Cabral’s independent feature TWO/ONE, which just premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival to rave reviews. Zhu Zhu made her U.S. theatrical debut in the Wachowski’s film CLOUD ATLAS, appearing opposite Tom Hanks and Halle Berry, and can also be seen in THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS opposite Russell Crowe. She then went on the play the female lead in Netflix’s original series MARCO POLO and starred in the Indian film TUBELIGHT directed by Kabir Khan alongside India’s most popular actor Salman Khan, which made her the first Chinese actress to star in a Bollywood film

AMY IRVING (Helen McClellan)

Amy Irving grew up in the theater and film world with her director father Jules Irving and actress mother Priscilla Pointer. She first garnered attention as an actress for her roles in Brian DePalma's early films "Carrie" and "The Fury." She went on to starring roles in "Voices," “Honeysuckle Rose," "The Competition," and "Micki and Maude". She received an Oscar-nomination for her role in "Yentl" and a Golden Globe nomination for her role in the popular film "Crossing Delancey." Irving has gone on to star in various other films including "Carried Away," "Adam” and two films for director Steven Soderbergh “Traffic” and most recently “Unsane”. She next stars in the feature film “Confetti”, and is in Amy Koppelman’s directorial debut "A Mouthful of Air”.

In theater, Irving trained at the American Conservatory Theater and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Ms. Irving starred in Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” at the Roundabout Theater. Irving received critical acclaim on Broadway in Arthur Miller’s “Broken Glass” at the Booth Theater. For “Broken Glass,”Irving was nominated for both the 1994 Drama Desk Award and The Outer Critics Circle Award. She has also starred in the Broadway productions of "Amadeus” and “Heartbreak House,” for which she received another Drama Desk nomination, and won an Obie Award as Best Actress for her performance in “Road to Mecca,” as well as receiving a Drama Desk nomination. She had the leading role in the 1991 Los Angeles premiere of “The Heidi Chronicles”. At The Santa Fe Festival Theatre she starred with her mother Priscilla Pointer in “Glass Menagerie,” and with Madeline Kahn & Victor Garber in Coward’s “Blythe Spirit.” She enjoyed a run of “The Vagina Monologues,” both Off Broadway and in the West End in London, and appeared in Ibsen’s “Ghosts” at the Classic Stage Company, “Fear” for the Naked Angels, and “The Exonerated”. In the summer of 2004 she produced and starred in a new play as the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Elizabeth Bishop at The Powerhouse Theater for New York Stage and Film going on to produce and star in “A Safe Harbor for Elizabeth Bishop” for Primary Stages in 2006. Charles Evered wrote the play “Celadine” for her, and it was produced at The George Street Playhouse. She participated in the Ensemble Studio Theater One-Act Marathon in a play by Leslie Lyles. In 2007, she enjoyed a long run of the Tony winning play by Tom Stoppard, “The Coast of Utopia” at Lincoln Center.

Also on stage Irving appeared in Leslie Lyles’ “Waters of March”, “The Glass Menagerie” at the John Drew Theater at Guild Hall, “Motherhood Out Loud” for the Hartford Stage, Isaac Mizrahi’s production of “A Little Night Music” at the St. Louis Opera and Zoe Kazan’s “We Live Here”. Irving also performed in "Cheri" off-Broadway at The Signature Theater and also at Lincoln Center in Washington, and the Ravenna Festival in Italy. Most recently, she starred in “Lady in the Dark” at New York City Center.

On television, her credits include “The Twilight Zone: Rod Sterling’s Lost Classics", the mini-series “Anastasia,” for which she received a Golden Globe nomination, “Spin City,” “Law and Order: SVU,” “Alias,” “House,” “ The Good Wife”, “Soundtrack” and the Showtime series “The Affair.”

LI YA NAN (Chen)

Graduated from Chinese Central Academy of Drama, played lead role in Aiqiyi’s tv series of “On-Line Love”, and “Unmarried girls and boys”. Li also lead in TV series of “Sparking Love”, “Not what I loved”, (awarded with Aiqiyi’s “Best Big Internet Film”), “Sisters”, “Cold Fireworks”, “Blind Date”, and “Mr. Midwife”. Li played male lead “Chen” in the US China coproduction film Confetti

HELEN SLATER (Dr. Wurmer)

Helen Slater’s career has encompassed motion pictures, television, music and stage. Upon graduating from the famed High School for the Performing Arts in New York City, her debut film performance in Supergirl opposite Faye Dunaway and Peter O’Toole, won praise from the most cynical of critics and launched her performing career. She went on to star in such films as The Legend of Billie Jean, Ruthless People, The Secret of My Success, City Slickers, Sticky Fingers, Lassie, No Way Back, The Steal and Seeing Other People, among others.

Her credits also include the Fox original movie 12:01, Hallmark Hall of Fame’s Best Friends for Life  opposite Gena Rowlands, Toothless with Kirstie Alley and Lifetime’s The Good Mother.  She currently has two movies in post production, The Curse of Downer’s Grove with Bella Heathcote, and Confetti with Amy Irving. She was a part of the all-star ensemble castoff in Showtime’s guided improvisational films Chantilly Lace and Parallel Lives.  On television, Helen Starred in Capital News, an ensemble drama set in a Washington newsroom and co starring Lloyd Bridges.  She also starred in ABC’s The Lying Game and can currently be seen as ‘Eliza Danvers’, Supergirl’s human mother in the CW series, Supergirl. As a guest star, she has appeared on such series as Seinfeld, Caroline in the City, HBO’s Dream On, CBS’ Michael Hayes Will and Grace, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, Supernatural and Smallville. She is currently paying Eliza Danvers on the CW show, Supergirl

Helen has also found success in the theatre world. She co-founded the theatre group Naked Angels and was a member of The Actor’s Movement Studio. She has appeared in the off-Broadway plays Almost Romance,  Responsible Parties, and starred in The Pasadena Playhouse’s world premiere production of The Big Day. Helen can be seen performing in West Hollywood at SHPLOTZ! on Sunday nights.  She is one of the founding members of the Los Angeles improvisational group The Bubalaires and is a founding member of Turbine Arts Collective, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to the exploration of creativity.

A singer and songwriter since her days at The High School for the Performing Arts, Helen has composed six albums, two musical theatre workshops and is currently writing her seventh album based on Hans Christian Anderson’s story,  The Emperor’s Nightingale. Helen’s latest album, released in July 2019; is based on the myth of The Selkie and the Fisherman. Her children’s album, The Ugly Duckling,has also been produced as a full-length theatre piece at Cal State Long Beach in 2018. Additionally, Helen has written a unique collection of mini musicals based in Greek mythology entitled, Myths of Ancient Greece.

In 2019, Helen went back to school and is currently enrolled in the Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Depth Psychology program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She will have her masters this fall and will be working towards her Ph.D.

HARMONIE HE (Meimei)

Harmonie starred in her first short film in April 2017 when she was seven. She had her first leading role in the film “Jiejie” and received the Gold Award for “Best Child Actress” at the 2018 Los Angeles Short Film Festival. The film aired on HBO. She has also done an episode for the CBS show “Why Women Kill” playing a young Lucy Liu, which aired in 2019. Recently, she booked a major studio feature film that will be coming out later in 2021.

Harmonie is also a dancer. She does ballet, jazz, contemporary, modern, lyrical, rumba, and hip hop. She has been in many different major dance competitions in the U.S. and West Coast area and has received many accolades.

American Born Chinese, Harmonie speaks both English and Chinese fluently. She has been hosting performances and has done a few voice over jobs in both languages. She has been doing English teaching videos for Chinese powerhouse media company, Tencent, through their partnership with LA based education company ABCmouse.

In playing the daughter in “Confetti”, she was thrilled to learn from all the acclaimed actors on set especially from her screen mother, Zhu Zhu, with whom she was able to act in both China and New York. “Confetti” is the warmest and loveliest family, forever.

Harmonie loves acting, and she would like to challenge for all different types of roles. She has done crying scenes, sad scenes, happy scenes, bullied by others scenes, killing scenes, being killed scenes, etc. She loves being on set and learning through filming, and she is not afraid of trying new things. She wants to be a successful actress.

GEORGE CHRISTOPHER (Thomas)

George (George C. Tronsrue) is an actor from Chicago, IL with over 70 credits in TV, Film and Theatre. He currently lives in Los Angeles after establishing himself as a Mandarin-speaking actor in the Chinese market. He played lead roles in several primetime Chinese TV series such as The Fatal Mission, Madhouse and Red Star over China. Recent US credits include Wild West Chronicles, Lonely Blue Night and Gun and a Hotel Bible. He recently produced and wrote his first short film Out on a Limb, which will be released in 2022.