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Film producer & creative director Alice Koh dies |
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She also the the Executive Director of Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable, which premiered at 2018 SXSW Film Festival, received the Special Jury Award for Documentary Feature, and was broadcast in PBS' American Masters series in 2019.
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LOS ANGELES, CA.- Alice Koh was a documentary film producer and creative director. She was an executive producer of Kusama: Infinity, that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable, that won an award at SXSW Film Festival. She was partnered with her brother, award-winning film producer David Koh, in a film production company and was working with him on several projects. Together they co-hosted a film salon at the Roxy Hotel Cinema for several years.
Alice Koh was born in Los Angeles, California on December 9, 1970. After graduating from Marlborourgh School, she enrolled at Barnard College in New York City, then transferred to Parsons School of Design and the New School for Social Research, where she received her BFA in Communication Design and BA in Art History in 1994. From 1994 to 2011, she worked in the beauty and fashion industries, first as a designer for Aramis and Prescriptives of Estee Lauder Companies, then as the worldwide creative director for Armani Exchange, Armani; Victoria Secret Stores, Limited Brands; and Bare Escentuals, Shiseido. During this period, she also served as a graphic designer for Spy magazine, Hearsts Seventeen, and Conde Nasts Mademoiselle and Vogue magazines; and taught at Parsons School of Design. In 2005, she opened a creative consultancy, and her clients included Estee Lauder, luxury hotel group COMO Hotels & Resorts and its wellness subsidiary COMO Shambhala. From her childhood love of movies, she expanded into film production in 2015.
Alices hobbies and passions included running and cooking. She completed the culinary degree program at the French Culinary Institute in New York City in 1998 and ran over twenty marathons in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston. She also completed Outward Bound School program. She was the proud pet-parent of a French bulldog, Kohgi. Alice died unexpectedly but peacefully at home in New York City on January 21, 2022. She was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles County. She is survived by her father Dr. Joon Young Koh and mother Minja L. Koh of Los Angeles; sister Dr. Susan Koh, Denver, Colorado; and brother David Koh, Brooklyn, New York.
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