Tony Kern
Encyclopedia
Tony Kern is a Singapore
-based American
film director
, screenwriter
, motion picture artist
and film producer
.
Kern’s latest film A Month of Hungry Ghosts
was released in Singapore on August 7, 2008. The feature film
was nominated for Best Film at the inaugural Singapore Film Awards as part of the 22nd Singapore International Film Festival
.
, USA, and graduated from the Bowling Green State University
.
at Northwestern University
as a video editor from 1996 to 2002. From 2003 to 2005, he worked as a producer and editor at AOL-Time Warner
prior to setting up film-production company Mythopolis Pictures with Singaporean
television news presenter
Genevieve Woo
. He also owns stock-footage company TK Time-Lapse, which features high-resolution royalty-free stock time-lapse footage.
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
-based American
United States
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film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
, screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
, motion picture artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and film producer
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...
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Kern’s latest film A Month of Hungry Ghosts
A Month of Hungry Ghosts
A Month of Hungry Ghosts is a 2008 film about the seventh-lunar-month Hungry Ghost Festival in Singapore. A Month of Hungry Ghosts is directed by Singapore-based American film director Tony Kern and co-produced by Genevieve Woo, a Singaporean television news anchor and producer with Channel...
was released in Singapore on August 7, 2008. The feature film
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
was nominated for Best Film at the inaugural Singapore Film Awards as part of the 22nd Singapore International Film Festival
Singapore International Film Festival
The Singapore International Film Festival was launched in 1987. The festival is an annual film event, held around April/May each year, and screens about 300 films from over 45 countries...
.
Early life and education
Kern attended Gibsonburg High School in OhioOhio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
, USA, and graduated from the Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green State University, often referred to as Bowling Green or BGSU, is a public, coeducational research university located in Bowling Green, Ohio, United States. The institution was granted a charter in 1910 by the State of Ohio as part of the Lowry Bill, which also established Kent State...
.
Career
Kern began his career in filmFilm
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
at Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
as a video editor from 1996 to 2002. From 2003 to 2005, he worked as a producer and editor at AOL-Time Warner
Time Warner
Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...
prior to setting up film-production company Mythopolis Pictures with Singaporean
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
television news presenter
News presenter
A news presenter is a person who presents news during a news program in the format of a television show, on the radio or the Internet.News presenters can work in a radio studio, television studio and from remote broadcasts in the field especially weather...
Genevieve Woo
Genevieve Woo
Genevieve Woo Marn Huong is a Singaporean television journalist and news presenter with Channel NewsAsia, an English-language news network reaching more than 20 Asian countries and territories. She currently presents Asia Business Tonight, which airs between 10.30pm and 11.00pm from Mondays to...
. He also owns stock-footage company TK Time-Lapse, which features high-resolution royalty-free stock time-lapse footage.
Short films
- The Mitre Spell (2007)
- Robot Man (2006)
- Dead Bitch Army
- Stay
- Steel Skies
- The Spooky Incident
- Like A Ghost
- Godzilla vs. Ameritech & Grandpa’s Truck
- Salvation Army Mural Occurrence
Other works
- Chasing Echo Music Sound Tracks
- Garage Kubrick – Sonic Wallpaper Scenes Music Sound Tracks
- Pan Music Sound Tracks
- El Nino Music Sound Tracks
- Plot Points of a Futuristic Urban Noir Music Sound Tracks
External links
- Mythopolis Pictures Official Website
- TK Time-Lapse Official Website
- A Month of Hungry Ghosts Official Website