Calvin Jai Jamison
Jai attended Hampton University as an English major, where he devoted much of his free time to making short films. While at Hampton, he was awarded a scholarship to study film at Oxford University during the summer. The film he made there, Running, went on to win best film at the SOL Film Festival and screened in festivals across the country.
Upon graduation, Jai was named a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellow and was granted admission to American University’s MFA Film program.
At American University, Jai distinguished himself early on as a stand out narrative filmmaker. His work earned him the mentorship of Gary Griffin, a Sundance Award Winning filmmaker, and Russell Williams, a two-time academy award winner.
Jai graduated summa cum laude from American University. His thesis film, Speak Now, is an official selection of both The Palm Beach International Film Festival and The Newport Beach Film Festival (Jai likes going to beaches).
Jai’s films are extremely diverse, ranging from Hitchcockian thrillers to satirical farce. The thread that connects them is a unique perspective of the world and an irreverent sense of humor, forged by his experiences studying at a Historically Black University; Oxford, England; American’s Graduate Film Program; and the Czech Re- public. Most recently, Jai worked on Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” and served as the supervising producer of Hampton University’s “The View from Hampton U.” Currently, he is a freelance producer in Richmond, VA.
Jasmin S. Greene
Jasmin S Greene began her writing career in academia, authoring the book, Beyond Money, Cars, and Women; Examin¬ing Black Masculinity in Hip Hop Culture published by Cambridge Scholars Press in 2008. Since then she has moved into screenwriting and producing. Her short film, Love and the Small Print was featured at the Cannes Film Festival Short Corner, Big Apple Film Festival and African American Women In Cinema Film Festival. Currently she is producing a documentary on Michael A Walrond, a popular NYC Harlem pastor now running for Congress in NYC. with HollandWest Productions.
Her script Little Lake was a finalist in the Sundance Screenwriters Lab 2014 and is currently being produced with Macy Gray. Jasmin is a native New Yorker who traveled and lived across 5 continents before finishing her graduate studies at UCLA. Combining her background in research, sociology and psychology, Jasmin's writing explores universal themes of loss, hope, coming of age, and love through an off-beat and quirky lens.
Kuni Ohi
Raised between Tokyo, Japan and the US, Kunitaro Ohi has lensed four feature films, as well as numerous shorts, commercials, and corporate videos for clients such as Walmart, Allstate, and the Virginia Department of Tourism.
His current projects include the feature "Something Anything" (dir. Paul Harrill, IFP Filmmakers Lab 2013), the short "Return to Elektra Springs" (dir. Christopher Munch, ITVS/PBS 'Futurestates'), and the Washington DC Unit photography for the doc "Years of Living Dangerously" (ep. James Cameron, Showtime Channel). He is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University’s program in Photo / Film.