Amplifying female, queer, disabled, and Asian/Indigenous voices.
Jana Park is a mixed-race Korean filmmaker from Mānoa and Molokai with a passion for producing stories that amplify female, queer, disabled, and Asian/Indigenous voices. She is a film production teacher at Mid-Pacific School of the Arts and HIFILM Industry Manager at the Hawaiʻi International Film Festival. She was featured on the Emmy Award–winning Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi documentary series and has produced award-winning narrative, documentary, television, and online work.
Her producing credits include feature films MOLOKAʻI BOUND (Line Producer; Winner: Best Made in Hawaiʻi Feature, Hawaiʻi International Film Festival) and MY PARTNER (UPM/Associate Producer; Winner: Audience Award, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival), as well as short films E MĀLAMA PONO, WILLY BOY (Winner: Audience Award, Hawaiʻi International Film Festival ), FAIR (Winner: Best Comedy, Jane Austen Film Festival), and APPA (Winner: Best Short Film, KAFFNY International Film Festival).
Her television and online experience includes producing and locations work for the Merrie Monarch Festival, Kamehameha Schools, The Hawaiʻi Council for Humanities, and three seasons on Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch: Bloodline. She directed and executive produced the short film GRACE (Winner: Best Indigenous Nations Film, New Zealand South Pacific Film Festival) which premiered at the Pacific Island Film Festival of New York City.
Park recently produced Justyn Ah Chong’s short film THE MAN AND THE TREE, funded by Pacific Islanders in Communications, the Sundance Institute’s Native Program, and the Nichols Family Fund, starring Ocean Kaowili (Chief of War, Apple TV+).
College
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Political Science
College
Los Angeles Pierece College
American Sign Language Interpreting
Amplifying female, queer, disabled, and Asian/Indigenous voices.
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