Parabola

Lee Shorten is a writer/director/actor who grew up in Tamworth, Australia, where he was raised by his adoptive parents. He graduated Law School in 2009 and worked as a lawyer for several years before he decided to pursue a career in the film industry. Though Lee is probably best known for playing Sergeant Yoshida on Ridley Scott’s, The Man in the High Castle, he has built a solid body of work over the past few years including recurring on Supernatural and guest starring as Master Tsui on Van Helsing. Lee is looking forward to working with Crazy 8s to bring Parabola to the screen. Lee is committed to telling diverse and inclusive stories.

Phil Planta is producer, filmmaker and VFX Artist. Phil, a graduate of Vancouver Film School and Focal Point School of Photography, has a background in photography and multimedia with expertise in 3D Animation/Visual FX. He has worked as a VFX artist for ‘Once Upon a Time’, ‘Falling Skies’, JJ Abrams ‘Revolution,’ and as VFX DoP ‘Twilight – Breaking Dawn – Part 2’, and Tim Burton’s “Big Eyes”. Mr. Planta was also Data Wrangler on the set of ‘‘Red 2’ starring Bruce Willis. Most recently he was one of the VFX Supervisors on the upcoming short film “Cargo”. He produced the short films “Contaminant”(2013) and “Final Wishes”(2016) both winning first place at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival MAMM. Mr. Planta was Hot Shot Shorts Finalist, he produced the the 1st Place Telus Storyhive short “Akashi” which also won at the NBC Universal Short Film Festival.

Brittany Lum-Cho is an award winning director and producer with a Canadian/Caribbean background. She attributes her multicultural upbringing as the reason for the diversity of the films she’s made, many of which have been seen in festivals around the world. She has been working professionally in the film industry since 2012 on various features and TV productions such as The Interview, Warcraft, Disney’s Descendants 2, Richard Says Goodbye, Cold Pursuit, and Resident Alien. Brittany holds a BFA in Film Production from UBC, the honour of being chosen for the George Bush Achievement in Directing Award from Langara Film Arts, and three years of an expensive and unfinished double major in sciences before she decided to switch her life around (no regrets.)

Mayumi Yoshida is from Tokyo, Japan. In 2010 she moved to Vancouver to pursue her acting career in North America. Her role as Crown Princess (The Man in The High Castle) received a 2016 UBCP/ACTRA’s Emerging Actor nomination. She made her debut as a filmmaker with Akashi-あかし-(2017) which she wrote, produced, directed, and starred in. The short film is based on her play NeOn-ね音- which was part of the 2016 Vancouver Fringe Festival and 2017’s rEvolver Festival. Mayumi won Best Actor award at the 2017 East Van Showcase, TELUS Storyhive 2016 Digital Shorts Grand Prize in BC, Outstanding Writer Award at NBC Universal Short Film Festival for her work on Akashi-あかし-.