EXCLUSIVE:ThePasifika Entertainment Advancement Komitihas revealed its inauguralPEAKWriters Fellowship class.
This cohort is full of creativity and potential.
Sophia is a Chamorro filmmaker with roots in the Mariana Islands and San Francisco Bay Area.
Clockwise Top L-R: Davis Kop, Jacqueline Olive, Tia Kanaeholo, Sophia Perez, Matthew Dekneef and Taylor ForemanCourtesy of PEAK
Matthew Dekneef|The BeachboysWaikiki, 1959.
Matthew is a writer, born and raised on Oahu, Hawaii.
He is repped by 3 Arts and RBEL Agency.
Tia is a Native Hawaiian multi-hyphenate actor, writer, and producer.
Her dramedy pilot unprofessional received an Honorable Mention in the inaugural LMU MFA Screenwriting competition.
Taylor is a Samoan American writer currently residing in Los Angeles, California.
He enjoys writing character-centric genre stories that explore identity.
He is repped by Jeff Portnoy at Bellevue.
Davis is a Native Hawaiian-Chinese-Filipino writer born and raised on the island of Oahu.
Kop attended Hawaii Pacific University and graduated with a degree in Multimedia Cinematic Arts.
During his time at HPU, Kop interned atThe Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
Kop worked as a production assistant on FXsBaskets.
