Filmmakers
HYUNSOO MOON
Director/Producer/DP/Editor
Hyunsoo Moon came to the United States from South Korea when he was 11 years old. Growing up in the suburbs of Boston, he has always been involved in theater and films, both onstage and behind the camera. In 2010, he moved to Los Angeles to work as a television editor. His work ranges from documentaries, reality TV, to scripted television. In 2018, he won the Los Angeles Emmy Award for Outstanding Editor, for his work on the series “City Rising,” an examination of how racist housing policies have shaped the landscape of our cities today. His work has always brought an emotionally impactful human aspect to socially relevant stories.
“The Americans” is his first feature film.
CAROLINE HO
Composer
Caroline Ho is a film composer, pianist, and cellist based in Los Angeles, CA. As a native of LA, she grew up studying classical piano and cello, competing internationally in high school, and studying with professors from the top U.S. conservatories. Her first composition for string orchestra premiered internationally at the Incontri in Terra di Siena Festival in Siena, Italy, at the age of 13. Since then, she has expanded her musical palette as a film composer by becoming skilled at improvisation, production, sound design, and orchestration, intertwining her rich experience as a classical performer with scoring by experimenting with live acoustic & electric cello/strings, and piano on many of her film scores.
After graduating from Yale with honors, Caroline received mentorship from multi Oscar-nominated composer Marco Beltrami (A Quiet Place, Logan, etc.). She has since worked with composers such as Ryan Lott of Son Lux, Stephanie Economou, and Alex Heffes. Most recently, she has worked with Alexis Grapsas, composing additional music for American Horror Stories.
Recent scoring projects include Mother of the Bride on Netflix directed by Mark Waters (2024) & two world premieres at Tribeca Film Festival 2023. She is represented by First Artists Management.
BRIAN TESSIER
Producer
Peabody and Emmy Award-winning documentary producer Brian Tessier’s critically acclaimed films have aired nationally on PBS, Turner Classic Movies, and A&E. His documentaries are known for their exhaustive research, unprecedented access, and expert use of primary source materials. Tessier worked with Emmy-winning director Peter Jones for 21 years, including 15 as Supervising Producer. The Peabody Award-winning Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Times (2009) was the first documentary on the history of Los Angeles to air as a national Prime Time special on PBS. Johnny Carson: King of Late Night (2012) remains the highest-rated film in the thirty-plus year history of the PBS series American Masters. In 2019, he received an Emmy Award for Blue Sky Metropolis, a four-part series on the history of aerospace in Southern California that was part of PBS’s Summer of Space celebration commemorating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11.
Tessier believes that the importance of social justice and inclusion in documentary storytelling has never been more important.
