A Private Online Screening of Reena Dutt’s “Found” in Celebration of Short Film Day
Recording Available
Past Event: December 28, 2021, 5:30 pm PST / 7:30 pm CST /8:30 pm EST
A still from the film “Found” showing the characters of Tabitha (Michalyn Steiner-Killian), and Won Jung (Annie Yim) backstage after Tabitha’s performance.
In celebration of National Short Film Day, Executive Producer WeXL.org presents Reena Dutt’s short film, “Found”, starring Michalyn Steiner-Killian as Tabitha and Annie Yim as Won Jung.
The film explores Tabitha, a woman stuck between two worlds of living in two skins as a Korean adoptee.
Join our WeXL Impact Network for free to attend this private online screening available only to our community. Following the screening will be a Q&A with Reena Dutt and Michalyn Steiner-Killian moderated by EunBi Chang, an animated filmmaker who immigrated from South Korea to the San Francisco Bay Area.
This special event preempts its premiere and festival tour which begins in 2022.
About Our Creators
Filmmaker Reena Dutt and director of “Found”
Reena Dutt (Writer/Director) is a city girl with a country soul who believe in creating with a conscience, on and off stage. Directing Credits: Film: “Scattered”, “Too Many Bodies”, “Snapshot!” (NewFilmmakers On Location Finalist). Awards/Honors: 2019 South Asian Film Festival of America Audience Award (Full list of 11+ awards for “Too Many Bodies” available on request), In theatre she has directed in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco with most notable works at Sacred Fools, The Vagrancy, Playground LA and SF, and East West Players and assist/associate directing at The Public and The Geffen. She is a 2021-2022 Drama League New York Directing Fellow and her newest production will be seen in February 2022 at DirectorFest.
As a producer, her films have been seen at Sundance, Los Angeles Film Festival, Outfest, Frameline, Inside Out, Whistler, Cucalorous, and NBCUniversal. She has produced for John Legend, Lulu Wang, Justin Lin’s Youtube Network, and Evite.com. Fellowships and Awards: 2020 Drama League NY Directing Fellowship Semifinalist, 2016 SFFilm KRF Fellowship Recipient, 2014 Project Involve at Film Indpendent, 2012 Finalist NewFilmmakers: On Location Competition.
Unions/Affiliations: Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Directors Lab West (Associate Producer), SFFilm, Film Independent’s Project Involve, IFP, Cinefemme.
Please go to www.ReenaDutt.com for more information.
Michalyn Steiner-Killian plays TABITHA, in “Found”.
Michalyn Steiner is a choreographer, performer, and dance educator in the Pacific Northwest and boldly took on the challenge as a lead producer and actor for FOUND. In November 2021 she co-directed and choreographed All Together Now, a global event celebrating local theatre produced in collaboration with Mainstage Theatre and Stageworks Northwest Theatre; she sits on the production teams for both theaters.
Other choreography credits include Private Eyes at Center Stage Theatre at Lower Columbia College, Mamma Mia!, The Music Man, and Seussical the Musical at Mainstage Theatre, and The Pirates of Penzance, Some Enchanted Evening, and Return to the Forbidden Planet at Stageworks Northwest Theatre. Previous acting roles include Helen in The Trojan Women (2020) and Corie Bratter in Barefoot in the Park (2019) at Stageworks Northwest Theatre. Michalyn studied theatre arts at Portland State University and has been choreographing shows since 1999.
After traveling extensively, Michalyn now resides in the town she grew up in just north of Portland, OR, bringing her choreography back to her hometown in hopes it influences young lives as positively as it influenced her own. She feels it is vital to make contributions to the arts in her community as it directly affects the culture where she raises her two children.
Eun Bi Chang will be moderating the Q&A panel after the private online screening.
Eun Bi Chang majored in Animation and VFX at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She has worked as a 2D character animator, storyboard artist, teacher, and film producer. Recently, she produced and directed the short film, “Paper City” (Madina Papel) which centers on the topic of honor-based violence that happens towards women in the Middle East. Eun Bi has always been an immigrant, an outsider. Her experiences, living in different places such as South Korea, New Zealand, and the U.S., strongly shaped how she views the world and influenced the themes of her work.