East West Event Productions: Recap: 4th Annual Talent 1 Media Film Festival

As I stated in my previous post, the last 3 months I've been assisting Talent 1 Media in putting together their annual film festival in Little Tokyo. This is their 4th year putting this festival on and it just gets bigger and better each year.

A little bit about Talent 1 Media...

Talent 1 Media is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping emerging filmmakers and artists use their creative talents for the purpose of causing change through raising awareness of social injustices. They offer wonderful and entertaining films, seminars and workshops, and live entertainment throughout their annual film festival, and best of all, the event is FREE! You can find out more information on their website at http://www.talent1media.org.

I had the pleasure of working closely with Sun Kim, Founder of T1M; Johnny Lee, Director of T1M; and an awesome planning team all made up of volunteers. As this is a completely free event for the general public, we had to rely on donations and pro bono work from volunteers. Thanks goes out to generous donors like Whole Foods, Platt Designs, Blossom Hill Florists, Wet Ink Printing, and many many individual donors who contributed cash and in-kind donations for the festival. Because of their kind donations and all the hard working people behind the scenes, we were able to provide food and entertainment for over 900 people, as well as spread awareness on human trafficking to the residents of Southern California and beyond.

My role was the Reception Coordinator, so I was in charge of coordinating all aspects of the evening reception. This included getting the red carpet and step & repeat set up, arranging DJ and music, coordinating catering, and laying out the decor. It was a lot of running around on the day of, but well worth the turn out! I definitely felt blessed to be a part of this amazing event and experience.

Pictures speak thousands of words so I'll just let these pictures do the talking...