Bertha Bay-Sa Pan

Pan’s feature film debut Face, co-written by Oscar-nominee and Emmy Award-winner Oren Moverman, starring Bai Ling, Kieu Chinh, Kristy Wu, Will Yun Lee, Ken Leung, and Treach of Naughty by Nature, with music by Grammy Award-winner Hub of The Roots, premiered at Sundance Film Festival as a Grand Jury-nominee, winning Urbanworld's Grand Jury Award for Best Director, GenArt’s Audience Award, CineVegas Critics Award for Best Director, nominated for Gotham Awards Breakthrough Director, and selected as a NY Times Critic’s Pick during its U.S. theatrical release. Pan’s second feature Almost Perfect, starring Kelly Hu, Edison Chen, Ivan Shaw, Christina Chang, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-nominee Tina Chen, and Olivier and Tony Award-winner Roger Rees, was selected as the Centerpiece Film at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and won the HBO Emerging Filmmaker Award, garnering glowing reviews from Variety, San Francisco Chronicle, and MTV during its theatrical releases in U.S. and Taiwan.

For television, Pan has directed Ava DuVernay’s Queen Sugar, executive produced by Oprah Winfrey and produced by Array and Warner Bros for OWN TV. In addition to Mando-pop superstar Leehom Wang’s 3D concert film Open Fire which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, Pan has directed docu-commercials, music videos for various artists including Pharcyde’s SlimKid3 which was a BET-Soul top rotation, and award-winning shorts including Lucy in the Sky, starring SAG Award-winner Catherine Curtin, Tony Award-winner Danny Burstein, Zoe Colletti, Quinn McColgan, Kelly Hu, and EGOT-winner Whoopi Goldberg.

Pan is currently in pre-production for the Newberry-honored, NY Times Bestseller Hope Was Here, and a newly elected Co-Chair of the DGA Eastern Diversity Steering Committee.