Paul Kwan Biography:
Executive Producer/Director/Writer
1998-2000  "A Wok in Progress", co-director.
1994-1997  "Pins and Noodles" (Video) co-director/producer, National PBS.
1993 "Pins and Noodles" co-director/co-writer/co-producer. Theatre performance and video commissioned for the Grand Openning of the Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco.
1991-1992  "Anatomy of A Springroll" co-executive producer/writer/director. A one hour long video commissioned by Independent Television Service (ITVS) for national PBS. Screened at New York Museum of Modern Art, National Educational Film & Video Festival at the Oakland Museum, S.F. Asian American International Film & Video Showcase (NAATA).
Awards/Fellowships
1997-1998  Media Art Grant/Video Production, National Endowment for the Arts
1997-1998  San Francisco Arts Commission.
1995 American Film Institute, Independent Film & Videomaker Grant.
1994-1995  National Asian American Telecommunication Assoication (NAATA)'s Media Art Grant (funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting).
1994-1995  Media Art Grant/Video Productions, National Endowment for the Arts.
1994 Gold Award, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Best Documentary Video from the Atlanta Film & Video Festival.
1993 Special Jury Award from the National Educational Film and Video Festival in the category of Multicultural Education.
1993 Travel Grants Pilot (Arts International/N.E.A.).
1992-1993  National Endowment for the Arts, (Interdisciplinary Arts).
1992 California Arts' Council, Media Fellowship.
1992 Artist-in-Resident/San Francisco Exploratorium (Tracing Time Exhibition).
1991-1992  "Open-Call" Award, Independent Television Service (ITVS).
Exhibitions
1998-1999  "Memory Project" Installation, San Francisco Exploratorium
1998 Monoprints, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco
1994 Monoprints, Joanne Chappell Gallery, San Francisco
1993 Works on Paper, Andrea Schwartz, San Francisco
1987 "Culture & Context", San Jose Institute of Comtemporary Art
1985 "Visible Self", San Francisco Art Commission Gallery