Roy Tjioe

Co Founder @Island Film Group

Honolulu, HI, US

Roy Tjioe has roots in Hong Kong and Indonesia, and he attended Millfield School in Somerset, England, but he has called Hawai\'i home since 1980. At the William S. Richardson School of Law, he was Comments Editor for the Law Review, and he received the American Jurisprudence Award for Negotiation and Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Bernard Levinson Memorial Award for outstanding essay on Constitutional Law. Roy was a successful litigation attorney at Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel from 1988 and was a partner from 1996 until his departure in 2007. From 2002, he led Goodsill\'s Entertainment Law Group, where he represented local, national and international film and television producers, including Twentieth Century Fox, ABC/Touchstone/Disney and Warner Bros. as well as independent filmmakers. He has lectured at the University of Hawai\'i\'s Pacific New Media and the Academy of Creative Media on entertainment law.As the lead creative producer, Roy focuses on story and script development at IFG, drawing on his experience as a stage and indie film actor, screenwriter and producer. As an actor, his Chinese language film \"Dao\" won a Special Jury Award at the Hawaii International Film Festival. As a writer, his scripts have trended on the Black List and reached the quarterfinals of the Academy Nicholl and PAGE international screenwriting competitions. He also produced an original documentary about Princess Ka`iulani which now appears in the DVD of the film by the same name. A fan of comic book art, his own work has appeared on the covers of the Hawai\'i Bar Journal and he has worked as a professional storyboard artist.

Chaminade University of Honolulu

Bachelor’s Degree, Business Administration and Management, General

Chaminade University of Honolulu

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Millfield School, Somerset, UK

Completed "O" Levels

University of Hawaii at Manoa

J.D., Law