BIO

Ina Adele Ray (aka Adele) is a Vietnamese and American (Scotch-Irish origins) filmmaker that migrated from Brooklyn, NY to Oakland, CA back in 2011. She has worked in film and video production in both the commercial and non-profit worlds (from broadcast tv to social media) as a producer, director, and editor for over 20 years to support her passion for filmmaking. . Adele enjoys working on projects that are dynamic, mission-driven, and/or have a distinct creative vision and style. Her clients include: Ambassadors Circle, One Bay Creative, The Computer History Museum, Google, D’Wayne Wiggins from the Soul/R&B group, Tony! Toni! Toné! and several more.

Adele has directed and produced a short VR documentary  called "The Red Room Project" that is showing at select venues on the east and west coast of the U.S. and in Asia from 2018-present including Facebook Immersive VR Film event at FB headquarters in Menlo Park, CA, Busan International Film Festival's VR Forum (S. Korea), ​

Ray has an MA in Media Studies from the New School University. Her areas of study are documentary, experimental, and narrative film production, as well as film, cultural, and media theory.  Adele has also served as a Part-time Assistant Professor, teaching film and media courses at the New School University and has also taught at NYU, Parsons School of Design, and Eugene Lang College. From 2014-2020 she production courses at Berkeley City College. Ray is also founder of the East Bay Documentary Filmmaking Support Group that supports independent documentary filmmakers through monthly peer review sessions, workshops, and screenings which has been running since 2013.  Resume link.

Her Presentation: "Melding VR Documentary Cinema & Live Hip-Hop: Processes & Collaboration" [Published in the Busan International Film Festival 2019 VR Forum manuscript]
Her Essay: "Vietnamese at the 'back drop' and the Invisible Cultural Producer" (Published in Hyphen Magazine and Center for Asian American Media: blogs)