Film & TV

As a filmmaker, Greg Pak is best known for his feature film Robot Stories, which won 35 awards and played in over 70 film festivals. Pak studied at the NYU Graduate Film program and won a Student Academy Award for his short documentary Fighting Grandpa. Pak’s recent short films include Happy Fun Room and Mister Green.

Feature: Robot Stories

Short: All Amateur Ecstasy, Asian Pride Porn, Cat Fight Tonight, Everybody’s Supersonic, Fighting Grandpa, Happy Fun Room, Happy Hamptons Holiday Camp for Troubled Couples, Mister Green, Mouse, Mr. Lee, Ode to Margaret Cho, Penny Marshall Project, Po Mo Knock Knock, Super Power Blues

Educational video: Informed Consent Zone

2006.05.06 – “Happy Hamptons Holiday Camp for Troubled Couples” at the VC FilmFest in LA

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“Happy Hamptons Holiday Camp for Troubled Couples,” a short film written by Greg Pak, Kim Ima, and Vin Knight and directed by Greg Pak, has its Los Angeles premiere at the VC FilmFest on May 6 and 7, 2006. The film screens twice:
In the “A Partnership of Sorts” shorts program on May 6 at 12 pm in the DGA Theater 2. Click here for more information and to buy tickets.
In the “What Do You Mean?” shorts program on May 7 at 7 pm at Laemmle’s Sunset 5 Theatre. Click here for more information and to buy tickets.

2006.02.18 – Greg Pak short films at the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon

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The DisOrient Asian American Film Festival will show a number of Greg Pak’s short films in a program entitled “The Greg Pak Retrospective” on Sunday, February 19, at 1:20 pm in Eugene, Oregon. Films include “Mouse,” “Fighting Grandpa,” “Po Mo Knock Knock,” “Asian Pride Porn,” “All Amateur Ecstasy,” “Cat Fight Tonight,” the “Machine Love” story from “Robot Stories,” and “Super Power Blues.” For more information, visit the official website.
Pak’s short films “All Amateur Ecstasy” and “Asian Pride Porn” will also appear in “Shorts Program X” at 7:25 on Saturday, February 18. For more information, visit the official website.

In FCP, “Color Corrector” better than “Brightness and Contrast” for adjusting brightness and contrast

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By Greg Pak
While working in Final Cut Pro on a new short film, I discovered that, strangely enough, the “Color Corrector” tool works far better than the “Brightness and Contrast” filter for adjusting the brightness and contrast of an image.
The Brightness and Contrast filter can be found at Effects > Video Filters > Image Control > Brightness and Contrast (Bezier). I could use the Brightness setting to lighten an image, but the image would appear washed out. And when I used the Contrast setting to fill in the blacks, the colors would begin to blow and the image would begin to look almost solarized.
The Color Corrector tool can be found at Effects > Video Filters > Color Correction > Color Corrector. Tweaking with the “Whites,” “Mids” and “Blacks” settings gave me the kind of control I needed to brighten the image and adjust the contrast without degrading the image.
System: Macintosh G4 533 MHz Dual Processor running FCP HD 4.5