This allows for greater communication and exchanges between foreign and domestic television and film professionals. No matter where we come from, we all share passions for: film, television and media.
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The Organizing Committee of WeLink International Film Festival in cooperation with United Nations Multimedia Guild of the UNSRC
Gérard Darmon (born 29 February 1948) is a French actor and singer. He is the second husband of Mathilda May. He has three children: Virginie (born1968) and the last two by Mathilda May, daughter Sarah (born 17 August1994) and son Jules (born 4 March 1997). Darmon also did a cover of
"Mambo Italiano".Darmon is of Algerian-Jewish origin. In July 2012, he was naturalized Moroccan by a decree from King Mohamed VI.
Li Qiankuan outstanding talent and extensive influence in the Chinese film, he was elected chairman of China Film Association and president of China Film Foundation, was named "China has made outstanding contributions to the film artist."
As a leading figure in the Chinese film industry, Li Qiankuan served as Chairman of many domestic and foreign film festivals. He was keen to do film public welfare undertakings. Contributed to the State Council policy paper entitled "Ten Measures on Prospering the Development of China's Film Industry", and made an important contribution to promoting the development of China's film industry. He planned and implemented a "10,000-school, linked film screening program" for schools in impoverished areas in western China so that millions of impoverished children in the mountains could see excellent films. He participated in the planning of the "Asian Film Awards", "Macau Film Forum" and "Beijing International Film Festival" and so on. He is a well-known movie artist in China
WeLink国际电影节创始人之一
Ye Zi 叶子
美国WeLink传媒集团董事长
致力于东西方文化交流,策划过许多中外文化交流的活动,推动中华文化走出国门,融入世界,也多次将西方的优秀艺术团队带进中国。特别是2013年9月与中国大剧院合作,由中国银行独家冠名赞助的《中国之美,世界看见》大型音乐会,更是轰动中美两国的华人及热爱中国文化艺术的外国人。对此,CCTV和中国的主要媒体,以及美国的华文媒体也做了大量的报道。2013年11月带领团队将中国海润集团出品的小成本电影《对不起,我爱你》全球首映礼搬到了联合国总部。早在90年代初就开始作为电影人参与了东南亚电影工作,其中电影《回归》,荣获亚太电影节大奖;与日本NHK电视台合作的电影《乡愁》,荣获鹿特丹国际电影节最受观众欢迎奖和亚洲电影促进联盟奖。 2010年作为出品人之一参与了美国和越南的电视剧《野心》,同时作为故事片《Don‘t Burn》的编剧之一,该片荣获2010年度越南最佳影片奖和最佳剧本奖。2011年30集电视剧《A2Z Problem Fixer》的编剧和出品人之一,
Chung Dick
Chung Dick, President of il Villaggio Consulting, Inc based in New York. Chung created this company which spans across multiple business area and involved in film making in 2015. Its subsidiary, 777 Raw Street Studio produced the feature action film, Broken Badges, and several other shorts in in the past few years and had received several awards. Chung’s involvement in the film making industry is to promote cultural exchanges between the United States and Asian countries such as China, and India. He joined the WeLink International Film Festival committee in 2017 and has been very active in the marketing role.
Catherine Chen
Art Director/Co-founder of WIFF
Jay Shen
Creative Design Director
WeLink国际电影节特别邀请
Tracey Birdsall
Tracey Birdsall is a producer and actress who was born in Van Nuys, CA, Her great-grandfather was Bert Lewis, the famous Walt Disney composer. Birdsall trained in dance, singing, musical theater in her youth, which later led her to
acting. She is known for her meticulous preparation, her diverse and challenging roles, and for working across genres. She produced four film which won 14 awards, and she currently has three feature films and a TV series in production and post production. Birdsall’s acting awards include Female Action Performer of the Year at Action on Film Festival, Best Actress from West Coast Film Festival, Best Actress from LATCA, and she was the only American actress nominated for Best Actress at the 50th Annual World Fest Houston 2017. She has won numerous "Best Picture" awards, and Tracey was the Guest of Honor at the Temecula Independent Film Festival in 2015, where she was presented with the esteemed Trailblazer Award. She is producing and starring in the upcoming TV series "Age of Darkness."
Filmmaker Julia Verdin is passionate about using the power of film to shed light on important social and humanitarian issues. She has a strong background as one of Hollywood’s leading independent producers, with 36 critically acclaimed feature films produced to date, many of which have screened at major film festivals including Sundance, Venice, Toronto, and London.
Her recent writing, producing and directing work includes the feature film "Lost Girls: Angie's Story" based on her short film "Lost Girls" about a teenage sex trafficking survivor’s journey of recovery, and highlighting the problem of Child-trafficking in the US.
Julia holds an MA in film with distinction, and is known as an educator and mentor for many young filmmakers. She is the author of the popular filmmaker's guide "Success In Film." In 2015 she was honored for her work in film and supporting female filmmakers, with the La Femme 2015 Executive Achievement Award. Julia served on the board of BAFTA LA for many years, during which time she chaired the film committee and the newcomer committee.
Recently, Julia founded the non-profit company https://www.artists4change.org/company Artists for Change with a mission of using film and media to raise awareness on key social issues and affect change. For more info on Julia and the films she has produced please visit
Jeremy Kagan
Professor Jeremy Kagan is an internationally recognized director, writer, and producer of feature films and television. His most recent feature SHOT is about what one bullet does to many lives. Among his past feature film credits are Heroes about a returning vet, the political thriller The Big Fix, The Chosen (two-time Grand Prize winner), and The Journey of Natty Gann (Gold Prize Moscow Film Festival) about a young girl on her own during the depression. Among his television shows are Katherine: The Making of an American Revolutionary, about the radicalization of a young woman, and HBO’s Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (ACE Award for Best Dramatic Special). His film Roswell, The UFO Cover-Up garnered a Golden Globe nomination. Other television films include, The Color of Justice about racism, Bobbie’s Girl about a lesbian couple, and Crown Heights about the 1991 riots. This movie won the Humanitas Award for "affirming the dignity of every person." Professor Kagan has won an EMMY for Dramatic Series Directing and directed many television shows including West Wing, Steven Spielberg's Taken, and the pilot for the hit series Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman. He produced and directed a ten-part series called Freedom Files on issues of social justice including racial profiling, LGBTQ rights, voting rights, the drug wars, dissent, women’s rights, and religious freedom. As a full tenured professor at USC, he teaches graduate courses at the School of Cinematic Arts and has created the Change Making Media Lab researching and producing socially responsible cinema.
Kirk Ryde
Kirk Ryde is an award-winning filmmaker and actor based in Los Angeles, CA. His films have screened in over 40 festivals and won 12 awards. As an actor, he has appeared on NBC Television, Curiosity Stream, and in many independent films. Kirk is the founder of the Kleer Bros. Story to Screen Award competition, which mentors new writers and grants $25,000 toward production of the winning writer's screenplay. Kirk works closely with many U.S. film festivals to help discover and promote new writers, actors and filmmakers worldwide. He is honored to be a co-organizer and panel moderator for the 2019 WeLink International Film Festival.
Jason Piette
Jason Piette is a producer and film financier with over 50 movies and TV series to his name, including the $25M The Merchant Of Venice starring Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons; Head In The Clouds ($20M) starring Charlize Theron and Penelope Cruz, (both for Sony Pictures Classics); the $33M Napoleon TV series for A & E in the United States; Perfect Creatures ($11M) for Twentieth Century Fox; independent American features such as Mark Pellington’s I Melt With You for Magnolia Pictures and cult classic in the making, part crowdfunded Iron Sky for Entertainment One. He is currently executive producing Berlin I Love You, the anthology movie starring Helen Mirren and Keira Knightley, and producing a $30M adaptation of Jack London’s White Fang in Canada and China.
Jason is founder, director for sales, production and distribution for Disrupting Influence, the production, sales and consultancy company based in the United States and in Germany, which represents films and TV shows on a worldwide basis and which actively raises equity for film from the European equity markets.
Jason is a graduate of Cambridge University, father of three children and lives in West Hollywood.
Anthony Argento
After graduated with a bachelor's degree in architecture from PACE Universiry, Anthony
Argento decided to pursue a career path in film making, so he enrolled in New York Film
Academy and start his own company- Rollin Studios, as this has been his passion all along
Having born as an Argento, the family who runs Broadway stages, one of the largest full-service film, television production company who has been in the show business fon over 30 years, Anthony has been involved in the industry since he was in high school.
Currently only in his 20s, he's one of the most mentionable producers in New York City at this age, he's produced or supervised the production of numerous films with big names, such as Mapplethrope, which was been nominated for the best narrative feature in TriBeCa film festival of 2018, Chinese blockbuster feature Detective Chinatown 2, which wrecked the Chinese box office in spring 2018, and the list goes on..
Even though with his connection and ability plus the capacity of rollin studios, which allows him to land high budget commercial films, Anthony still spends significant amount of time and effort aiding aspiring film makers in their passion project with low or almost.
no cost. He believes that the future of the film industry lies on these young people and he also believes that it will make a difference if there are people to help nurturing these young creative minds. Under Rollin Studios production, many of these passion films even got into film festivals and received numerous nominations. Some of the honorable mentions would be Devoured (2014), Indiana (2017), and The Pulse (2018).