Upon graduating with honors from Columbia University as an undergraduate screenwriting concentrate, JOE TURNER LIN worked on over fifty feature-length and short films, television, commercial and music-video productions including: Whatever, Joe's Apartment, Jeffrey, Dogs, HBO: Real Sex, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, and National Geographic Explorer.  After producing a number of independent features, he returned to school at Columbia University's M.F.A. Film Program, where he received the Arthur Krim Award, HBO's Young Producer's Development Award and Columbia University’s Best Producer for the Student Academy Award-winning short, Jesus Henry Christ.  He has written several feature-length screenplays, and has also directed short films, spec commercials and industrials.  His short thesis film, Seibutsu (Still: Life), was a national-finalist for the Student Academy Awards in 2004, and recently won the Grand Prize at both the San Diego Asian International Film Festival and Chinese-American Festival of Film and Culture.  Last year, Joe and Julie Anne Meerschwam’s feature script “Celamy” was selected to participate in the Tribeca Film Festival’s All Access Program. Currently, Joe is the Head of Production at First Wives World, a social-network for divorced women, as well as a partner in Kulture Machine LLC, and is preparing to direct his first feature, Love Is Red, in 2009.