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PBS Short Film Festival 2023
Maggie’s family has her entire life planned out, but she wants more for herself than predetermined clichés. When she encounters an enchanting girl at a local Chinese restaurant, she must reflect upon the values and desires that whisper within her. Through poignant dialogue and vivid imagery, Lucky Fish champions the adolescent desire to flourish.
Emily May Jampel is a filmmaker from Oʻahu based in New York City. Her short film Lucky Fish has played at festivals including Palm Springs International Film Festival (Winner, Young Cineastes Award, Special Mention, Best LGBTQ+ Short), Champs-Élysées (Winner, Audience Award), Outfest L.A., Frameline, Inside Out and Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, and premiered on NOWNESS Asia. She is one of the 2023 Recipients of The New Voices Filmmaker Grant, a new initiative from NewFest in partnership with Netflix. Emily has curated film programs for Metrograph and Allies in Arts. She previously worked as a development executive at the Academy Award-Nominated and Peabody Award-Winning production company The Department of Motion Pictures (BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, PATTI CAKE$, MONSTERS & MEN, PHILLY D.A.) and was an Associate Producer on the podcast series OPERATOR, produced in partnership with Topic and Wondery.
Founded in 1980 the San Francisco-based Center for Asian American Media, formerly known as the National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA), has grown into the largest organization dedicated to the advancement of Asian Americans in independent media, specifically the areas of television and filmmaking. CAAM’s inception at the beginning of the 1980s came at a key moment in the historical development of Asian American media. Earlier, in 1971, Los Angeles-based activists and artists established Visual Communications (VC), a community-based organization which was instrumental in helping to create many early examples of Asian American filmmaking, including the first Asian American feature film, Hito Hata: Raise the Banner in 1980. In New York, Asian CineVision (ACV) formed in 1976 and pursued similar goals as VC, helping to nurture a nascent East Coast filmmaking community.
| Production Company | rubbertape.co |
| Director | Emily May Jampel |
| Writer | Emily May Jampel |
| Producers | Jeremy Truong Yutian Feng |
| Starring | Lukita Maxwell Anna Mikami Zoe Del Giudice Jenny Lin Fanny Lawren |
| Cinematography | Ace Buckley |
| Production Design | Josefine Cardoni |
| Editor | Alan Wu |
| Costume Design & Art Direction | Caroline Xia |
| Composer | Robert Ouyang Rusli |
| Sound Design | Torin Geller |
| Color | Alec Davis |
| Casting Assistant | Christabelle Tan |
| 1st Assistant Director | Ingie Enan |
| 2nd Assistant Director | Rhea Li |
| Script Supervisor | Amara Mesnik |
| 1st Assistant Camera | Sam Schrag |
| 2nd Assistant Camera | Shuyao Chen Rachel Brown |
| Gaffer | Harrison Rusk |
| Key Grip | Gabe Armstrong |
| Sound Mix | Pete Christmann Travis Jones |
| Hair & Makeup | Lily Li Brandon Cotto |
| Set Photography | Michael Beckert |
| Production Assistant | Robert Flores |
| Covid Compliance | Jonas Berry |
| Fish Handler & Installation | Noel Rose |
| Celine's Family | Joanna Yamakami Michael C. Liu Jinho Myung |
| Restaurant Goers | Sophia Meng Ping Del Giudice Esther Hong Amy Jampel Arnell Ariyana Kendall Kleinberg Lyman Heung |
| Special Thanks | Daisy Zhou Amy Jampel Grace Zhang Park Asia Maggie Gu Justin Chan Drew Denny Ping Del Giudice Tara Sheffer Meredith Duff Devon Jackson Jonas Berry |
| Made Possible With Support From | Asian CineVision Inside Out: ReFocus Fund |
