Greg Pak
Greg Pak is an award-winning writer and director, and author of Robot Stories and More Screenplays, which collects the best film scripts of his career to date.
His first feature film, "Robot Stories" starred Tamlyn Tomita and Sab Shimono, played in over dozens of international and American festivals, and won over 35 awards. Greg's screenplay "Corporis Vesalius" won the Sloan Foundation Screenwriting Award. Greg's comic shorts "Asian Pride Porn" (which features Tony award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang) and "All Amateur Ecstasy" are among the most viewed films at AtomFilms.com. His short film "Mouse" won Best Narrative Short at the 2000 San Diego Asian Film Festival.
All these screenplays, including "Cat Fight Tonight" and "Rice World" are collected in the new book Robot Stories and More Screenplays, whose introduction is written by the famed playright David Henry Hwang. Wizard magazine recommended the book in its 2005 Holiday Gift Guide.
After writing "Famous Long Ago" for Antidote Films, Greg broke into comics and has quickly become a fan favorite scribe. Recognizing his writing talent in Robot Stories, Marvel Comics hired him. Greg soon produced critically-acclaimed runs on the new "Warlock", the bestseller "Phoenix Endsong" (illustrated by Greg Land), and sequels "Phoenix Warsong" and "1602: the New World" (originally created by Neil Gaiman). In addition to a stint with "Ironman", he has created a new Asian American protagonist named "Mastermind Excello."
With his star rising with the comics adaptation of the new TV version of "Battlestar Galatica", Greg grabbed the horns of the jolly green giant and hasn't looked back. His interpretation of The Incredible Hulk has reinvigorated the character and led to his penning Marvel's flagship 2007 crossover series "World War Hulk." Quickly Wizard magazine has named him one of the Top 10 hottest writers in the US comic book industry, in whose ranks he is now a monthly regular.
Greg edits FilmHelp.com and AsianAmericanFilm.com. He was the cinematographer of "The Personals," an Academy Award winning short documentary, and was recently named one of 25 Filmmakers to Watch by Filmmaker Magazine. Greg studied political science at Yale University, history at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and film production at the NYU graduate film program.
Reviews
"Greg Pak’s lovely, low-key science-fiction film has more in common with the short stories of Ray Bradbury than the pyrotechnics of George Lucas. Composed as a quartet of expertly acted chapters, [Robot Stories] is a smart evocation of love in the near-future, told through a widower’s grief, a mother’s anxiety, a family’s tragedy, and a robot’s confusion."- New York Magazine
"In less than 90 minutes, Robot Stories says more about humanity's relationship to machines than the entire "Matrix" trilogy. At its best, this quartet of vignettes could also be favorably compared to Minority Report (without the budget) and A.I. (without the bluster)."
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"If only Steven Spielberg had had the quirkiness and the funny bone of New York filmmaker Greg Pak when he set out to make A.I.: Artificial Intelligence a couple of years ago. We might all have been the richer for it." - Providence Journal
"A smart, low budget meditation (or meditations) on love, loss, family, and community, writer director Greg Pak's anthology borrows elements from Ray Bradbury, Phillip K. Dick, and other sci-fi visionaries, but places them in a recognizable, down-to-earth context... Robot Stories isn't slick, isn't gimmicky. These are tales from the heart - pulsing to a high-tech beat."
- Philadelphia Inquirer
