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.
ROBERT LYDECKER
Composer
Robert Lydecker is an Emmy-winning composer whose work spans from Charlie Kaufman's introspective storytelling to Vin Diesel's high-octane action. A classically-trained musician who grew up playing drums in punk bands, Lydecker has scored DreamWorks' Orion and the Dark (Emmy-nominated), the Emmy-winning Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight, and contributed additional music to Avengers: Age of Ultron, Iron Man 3, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. His television credits include Designated Survivor (ABC), Sleepy Hollow (Fox, Emmy-nominated main title theme), Lethal Weapon (Fox/Warner Bros), and Marvel's Iron Fist. Beyond his screen work, Lydecker remains deeply engaged with his community—cooking and serving free meals in downtown LA, transforming an abandoned East Hollywood lot into a community garden, and volunteering to restore native habitats in Los Angeles state parks.
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.
