In Los Angeles, front row from left: Gerardo Naranjo Gonzalez (AFI, The Last Attack of the Beast), DGA Asian-American Committee Co-chair Victor Ho, Grace Lee (UCLA, Barrier Device), Joel Juarez (UCLA, Sin Azul), John Chu (USC, Gwai-Lo: The Little Foreigner). Back row from left: DGA Latino Committee Co-chair Joe Menendez, Robin Larsen (UCLA, Out of Habit), DGA Past President Gene Reynolds, Tanya Mairitsch (AFI, Fueling the Fire), Mateen Kemet (Chapman University, Silence) and Eastman Kodak's Gayle Barnes.
(Photo: Joe Coomber)