The Team
EMILY ESPERANZA
WRITER/DIRECTOR
Emily Esperanza is a filmmaker and artist whose passions lie in discarded aesthetics, liminal spaces, guerrilla approaches, and unconventional narrative. Esperanza’s films have screened in theatres, microcinemas, galleries, film festivals, and museums across the country including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, and New Mexico. Co-produced by Full Spectrum Features, Esperanza’s award-winning film, ‘Make Out Party’, premiered in 2018 at an event co-presented by FSF and Chicago Underground Film Festival and is currently touring festivals.
EUGENE SUN PARK
PRODUCER
Eugene Sun Park is a filmmaker and producer working in narrative and experimental forms. He is the founder and executive director of Full Spectrum Features. His current projects include Chicagoland Shorts, an annual touring program of short films that showcases the work of women, LGBTQ, and minority filmmakers; The Year Between, a feature film produced with support from the Tribeca Film Institute; and Resistance & Resettlement, a cinematic digital history project about Japanese American WWII incarceration funded by the National Park Service.
JEFFREY CARL MULL
CO-WRITER
Jeffrey Carl Mull is a poet and fiction writer from California. He has lived many places and loved many people. He earned a BFA in creative writing and literature and learned how to tango under a full moon in the Sahara desert. In San Francisco he worked with Dave Eggers and in Tangier he sang Neil Young songs with a goat farmer. He can open his eyes underwater.
BRIAN KHAN
PRODUCER
Brian is a Dominican-Canadian-American producer with a background in film, business development, and marketing. After graduating college in Canada, he focused on community and business development, including managing mayoral and federal Canadian campaigns, working with businesses to develop marketing engagement campaigns, and building a variety of community festivals and events. Most recently he worked with AbelCine’s midwest operation, engaging with creative communities across the midwest.
He has produced a variety of projects ranging from an educational PSA for the Windsor-Essex Sexual Assault Crisis Center and a feature-length documentary in Bosnia about identity to a short historical-fiction about the prohibition era in Canada and a gory horror in Virtual Reality. He also freelances as a line producer/production manager.
GREG STEPHEN REIGH
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Greg Stephen Reigh is a director, cinematographer, videographer, and editor currently living in Chicago. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013.
He served as the Director of Photography on the feature film “Holy Trinity” (2019, Full Spectrum Features, Dir. Molly Hewitt) and the shorts “I Miss Jamie When She’s Gone” (2019, VAM Studio & Full Spectrum Features, Dir. Ash Thompson) and “Makeout Party” (2017, Full Spectrum Features, Dir. Emily Esperanza).
His clients include Redbull, Apple, Spotify, Viacom Velocity, Fila, Chance the Rapper, Esperanza Spalding, Jidenna, Jamila Woods, Shea Coulee, Dorian Electra, Jungle Pussy, Laura Jane Grace And The Devouring Mothers, Do312, Grindr and IntoMore. His work has been featured through media outlets such as Billboard, Rolling Stone, IntoMore, Out Magazine, Huffington Post, and Paper Magazine.
FULL SPECTRUM FEATURES
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Full Spectrum Features is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit committed to increasing diversity in the independent film industry by producing, exhibiting, and supporting the work of women, LGBTQ, and minority filmmakers. As a full-service production company and speciality distributor, Full Spectrum Features’ award-winning films have screened at over 400 festivals, micro-cinemas, museums, galleries, and alternative screening venues around the world. Notable recognitions include Grand Jury Prize at Outfest (Signature Move), ReFrame Stamp (Freelancers Anonymous), Streamy Award for Best Indie Series (The T), and the Panavision Prize for Best Short at the Thin Line Fest (The Orange Story), among others.
