The Dead Boy
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2004
Logline
Fatally hit by a car on the same day that he asks his high school crush to the Halloween dance, Wilson is determined not to let death stand between him and the date of a lifetime.
Greg Pak
Director
Greg Pak is an award-winning writer and director whose first feature film, Robot Stories, is currently in domestic theatrical release and has won 29 prizes, including Best Feature Film at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and Best Screenplay at the Hamptons International Film Festival. Greg's feature screenplay Rio Chino won the Pipedream Screenwriting Award at the 2002 IFP Market and a 2003 Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship.
Greg's short film Fighting Grandpa has won 20 prizes, including a Student Academy Award. His comic shorts Asian Pride Porn and All Amateur Ecstasy are among the most viewed films at AtomFilms.com. His shorts Mouse, Po Mo Knock Knock, Cat Fight Tonight,and The Penny Marshall Project have won awards and screened in film festivals around the world.
Karin Chien
Producer
Karin Chien is an independent film producer based in New York City. Ms. Chien is currently co-producing The Motel (winner of the NHK Screenplay Award at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival) with producers Miguel Arteta and Matthew Greensfield (and Chuck & Buck). Ms. Chien has produced feature-length films MVP and Robot Stories, winner of 29 film festival awards, currently in theatrical release around teh country.