Jackie Kong

Jackie Kong is an American screenwriter, film producer, and film director known for the cult horror film Blood Diner.

Biography Kong was born in Hanford, California and grew up in Benedict Canyon above Beverly Hills. Kong has four sisters and one brother. She and her mother moved to Hollywood when Jackie was 16 so her mother, Anita Loo, could pursue a career as an actress. Her mother was a cinephile, and Kong was exposed at a young age to the world of film. In a recent interview on a podcast called Shock Waves, Kong recalls receiving her first 16mm film camera from her mother's good friend Marlon Brando for her 18th birthday. Marlon did however try to talk her out of the world of cinema because of all the stigma and pressures of the Hollywood scene. Despite the reluctant support from Brando and her parents, Kong went on to become a director Kong attended Beverly Hills High School, where she started making short films, and later graduated from California State University Northridge.

Kong produces, writes and directs films that are often inventive, shocking, and funny. Throughout the eighties, Kong made four low-budget films and began doing so in her early 20s. She made her first film at the age of 23.

Filmography The Being (1983) Night Patrol (1984) The Underachievers (1987) Blood Diner (1987) Karaoke Nights (2001) (TV series) In Search of Darkness: Part II (2020) (Documentary) "Creature Features" (2020 & 2021)