Brian Perkins

American filmmaker Brian Perkins has traveled extensively through the remote parts of Asia and India. After creating a network of relationships in the monasteries and villages of Myanmar—picking up conversational Burmese along the way—he was in a unique position to bring Golden Kingdom to audiences. While a graduate student at UC Berkeley, Perkins received the Eisner Prize in Film and Video and was the recipient of numerous acknowledgments during his studies at New York University. Born in 1980 in Portland, Oregon, Brian currently lives in Berlin and Asia. Golden Kingdom is his debut feature film.

Mill Valley Film Festival