Kyle Casey Chu (creator / writer)
Kyle Casey Chu (Panda Dulce) is a drag performer and multidisciplinary artist who writes about intersectional justice and LGBTQ inclusion. Her work, combining drag, media and community engagement, has been spotlighted on National Public Radio, VICE, Huffington Post, MTV and NBC, amongst others. She has guest spoken and performed at SFMOMA and universities across the country, including UC Berkeley, California Institute of the Arts, Tulane University and University of Florida.
Kyle has also produced scores for award-winning feature films, and has shared the stage with Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Japanther, Gravy Train!!!, Mirah, The Blow, and Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine.
Kyle Casey Chu (Panda Dulce) is a drag performer and multidisciplinary artist who writes about intersectional justice and LGBTQ inclusion. Her work, combining drag, media and community engagement, has been spotlighted on National Public Radio, VICE, Huffington Post, MTV and NBC, amongst others. She has guest spoken and performed at SFMOMA and universities across the country, including UC Berkeley, California Institute of the Arts, Tulane University and University of Florida.
Kyle has also produced scores for award-winning feature films, and has shared the stage with Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Japanther, Gravy Train!!!, Mirah, The Blow, and Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine.
Natalie Tsui (story / director)
Natalie Tsui is a media artist born in Hong Kong, now living and working in Oakland, CA and Brooklyn, NY. Coming from a background as a filmmaker, Tsui appropriates traditional cinematic techniques to bring awareness to the exaptation of photography and motion imaging to propagate Western, heteronormative ideologies. Her work utilizes rhizomatic structures, spatial-temporal displacement, repetition, and performance to unsettle the cinematic gaze, inviting poetic interpretation and critical reflection on visual culture. Tsui received a BA in Film Studies and English from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2008 and an MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University in 2014. Her work has been screened at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Frameline, Museu de Arts Moderna of Rio de Janiero, Southern Exposure, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She is the recipient of the Fotokem Graduate Student Grant and the Princess Grace Film Honorarium, among others.
Natalie Tsui is a media artist born in Hong Kong, now living and working in Oakland, CA and Brooklyn, NY. Coming from a background as a filmmaker, Tsui appropriates traditional cinematic techniques to bring awareness to the exaptation of photography and motion imaging to propagate Western, heteronormative ideologies. Her work utilizes rhizomatic structures, spatial-temporal displacement, repetition, and performance to unsettle the cinematic gaze, inviting poetic interpretation and critical reflection on visual culture. Tsui received a BA in Film Studies and English from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2008 and an MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University in 2014. Her work has been screened at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Frameline, Museu de Arts Moderna of Rio de Janiero, Southern Exposure, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She is the recipient of the Fotokem Graduate Student Grant and the Princess Grace Film Honorarium, among others.
Donna Mae Foronda (story / writer)
Donna Mae Foronda is a screenwriter based in the SF Bay Area. She ventured into filmmaking in 2007 and learned the ropes through her time at Chapman University (B.A. Screenwriting, minor LGBTQ Studies), unpaid Hollywood internships (NBCUniversal, Center for Asian American Media), and collaborating with other Bay Area filmmakers in a local indie film incubator - Scary Cow.
She's written and produced multiple short films receiving awards from Outstanding Writing to Audience Choice, and screened at SF's Castro Theatre, CAAM Film Festival, Asian Film Festival of Dallas, and the Maine International Film Festival.
Donna Mae Foronda is a screenwriter based in the SF Bay Area. She ventured into filmmaking in 2007 and learned the ropes through her time at Chapman University (B.A. Screenwriting, minor LGBTQ Studies), unpaid Hollywood internships (NBCUniversal, Center for Asian American Media), and collaborating with other Bay Area filmmakers in a local indie film incubator - Scary Cow.
She's written and produced multiple short films receiving awards from Outstanding Writing to Audience Choice, and screened at SF's Castro Theatre, CAAM Film Festival, Asian Film Festival of Dallas, and the Maine International Film Festival.
