Writer/director Diane Paragas sat down with HFPA journalist Janet Nepales to discuss her film Yellow Rose, which made history as the first Filipino-American film theatrically distributed by a major Hollywood studio. They also discuss the fifteen years it took her to get to this point, the importance of music, what it was like growing up an offspring of two doctors, her experiences with racism, her next project: a pop music opera called Lizards, and more.