Shanghai Kiss

David Ren is a Chinese-American film co-director, writer and producer. David Ren was born in Shanghai, China and grew up in Queens, New York City. He started to study acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse at the age of nine. He attended the Bronx High School of Science, Professional Children's... School, and the University of Redlands. He moved to Los Angeles in 2003 to pursue a filmmaking career. He married Athena Hu in 2005. They have two children together. Ren wrote and co-directed his first feature film in 2007, Shanghai Kiss with co-director Kern Konwiser. The film stars Ken Leung, Hayden Panettiere, Kelly Hu and Joel David Moore. It won awards at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival and was bestowed a Gold Angel Award at the Chinese American Film Festival. Ren's second feature is an action noir titled The Girl from the Naked Eye, set to be released in 2011.
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Kern Konwiser is an American film writer, director, and producer. Kern Konwiser is the brother of director, writer, producer Kip Konwiser. The Konwiser Brothers began their professional career together and have stayed that way ever since. Their earliest outings were as professional tap dancers in... shows across the country, included in their act was dance, juggling, comedy and magic performed on stages and street corners everywhere. As professional skiers they started making films for Warren Miller Ski Films and began their formal collaboration after each had graduated from USC Cinema-Television graduate program with stints as writers on "The New Jonny Quest", music and film collaborations with the Grateful Dead's drummer Mickey Hart, in multi-media with partners Herbie Hancock, The Doors, Willie Nelson, Carlos Santana, Peter Gabriel, Oliver Stone's Nixon among others and as production/development executives for USC Film School's founding dean, Academy Award winning dramaturge Frank Daniel as well as for Academy Award winning producer Laurence Mark.
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