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Deets: Asia Society Southern California hosted the 13th Annual U.S.-Asia Entertainment Summit & Game Changer Awards. This year’s event took place on October 30, 2022 featuring high-level keynote conversations and panel discussions.
Panel Discussion on Asia Pacific Region 2:05 - 2:35 p.m
Apoorva Bakshi, Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Golden Karavan, Awedacious Originals
Lindsay Conner, Partner, O'Melveny
Bennett Pozil, Executive Vice President, East West Bank
Asian Women Empowered: Wavemakers in Animation 2:35 - 3:15 p.m
Adele Lim, Screenwriter, (Crazy Rich Asians, Raya and the Last Dragon)
Domee Shi, Writer, Director, and Creative VP, Pixar Animation Studios (Bao, Turning Red)
Janet Wu, Director in Film, Animation, Content, Netflix
Evolution of Entertainment 3:30 - 4:10 p.m
Randy Ahn, Head of Subscriptions, Roku
Rebecca Liao, CEO and Co-Founder, Saga
Tina Trankiem, Video & Entertainment Partner Marketing, Global Media Partnerships, Meta
Spotlight on Showrunners 4:15 - 4:55 p.m
Jessica Gao, showrunner, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
Georgia Lee, showrunner, Partner Track
Alan Yang, showrunner, Master of None
Honoree's Fireside Chat 4:55 - 5:15 p.m
Bowen Yang, comedian, writer, actor and the first Chinese American cast member of Saturday Night Live
Andrew Ahn, director of Fire Island
Red Carpet // Evening Gala
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Entertainment Game Changers Honorees
**participating virtually
Ms. Marvel
Everything Everywhere All At Once Filmmakers
· Director Daniel Kwan
· Director Daniel Scheinert
· Producer Jonathan Wang
Bowen Yang** (Saturday Night Live, Fire Island, Bros.)
Sherry Cola (Good Trouble, Turning Red)
88rising record label
Career Achievement Award
Janet Yang recently-elected President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Hint for the Average Socialite: This is invite only.
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