Talent Guide

Catherine Park

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Producing Lab 2003

Bio

Catherine Park is an independent film producer who brings together her love for cinematic storytelling with an extensive background in the media and technology industries. Producing credits include The Grace Lee Project, a documentary directed by Grace Lee, and Undoing, the second feature film by Chris Chan Lee (Yellow), starring Sung Kang (Better Luck Tomorrow). A blue ribbon committee of Filmmaker Magazine and the 2003 IFP Los Angeles Film Festival representatives selected Undoing for their “Fast Track,” a new program that launches feature films by connecting them with resources, talent, executives, and buyers who can provide tangible means to move the project along.

Park is a graduate of the University of Southern California. She began her career with Chris Lee, former President of TriStar Pictures and Columbia Pictures. She is also currently the CFO/COO of Robot Factory Incorporated, the parent company of Giant Robot Magazine and the Giant Robot Stores.

A veteran player in new media, Park has held positions at Fox Interactive, Skunk Technologies, fine.com, Magnet Interactive and Young & Rubicam and worked with clients ranging from Lincoln-Mercury (Ford Motor Company, The Clorox Company, 20th Century Fox, New Line Cinema, Sony Pictures, MGM, and Disney. In 1999 and 2000, Park was named one of the “Top 50 Digital Coast Executives” by Silicon Alley Reporter and Digital Coast Reporter. In 2000, Park co-founded TIDAL4, a convergence studio in partnership with Mosaic Media Group.

Park is extensively involved in the Asian American community. Park has helped found several community and networking organizations, including Asians in Entertainment and New Technologies. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Korean American Coalition, Visual Communications’ Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival, Playwrights’ Arena and Women in New Technologies.

Current Project

Smells Like Butter (Narrative Feature)

Logline

Fed up with her stagnant single life, a woman travels back to the old country, Korea, to arrange her own marriage.