117: Sundance Filmmaker Jason Park and Actor JohnnyBoy Tellem
Jason Park, a second-generation Korean-American born and raised from the city of Chicago, started making films when he would take his dad’s camera and reenact his favorite movies with his friends that were truly a horrific sight to behold. He somehow decided to study Theology, History, and Secondary Education in college, and spent a year as a teacher/missionary on the island of Palau in the South Pacific, where he eventually reaffirmed his love for cinema.
Soon after he was selected to the Student Symposium Program at the 40th Telluride Film Festival and received a screenwriting fellowship through Film Independent’s premiere diversity program, Project: Involve.
BJ’s Mobile Gi8 Shop, premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Park is currently developing his first feature film, Transplant, a film he co-wrote and will direct, which was selected for the 2020 Sundance Screenwritng Intensive. He is a 2020 Sundance Feature Film Fellow.
Actor: Johnnyboy Tellem (John D. Kim) considers himself as a modern-day renaissance man, a new age artist expressing his creative ideas and passion through filmmaking, music production, and poetry. He is the CEO and leader of STAY VISUALANT, a creative team based in Atlanta. He was born and raised in South Korea until the age of 13, where he moved to the United States to set out on a grander journey towards his destiny. Bringing the culture & perception of both eastern and western people together through art that inspires unity & freedom is his main motive and drive as an artist and human being.
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