On this episode of the KollabCast, we begin the road to APA Heritage Month with a preview of one of the month's biggest events, the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, hosted by our community friends at Visual Communications. Deadline Hollywood editor Dino-Ray Ramos joins the podcast along with Festival programmers Eseel Borlasa and Lindy Leong to talk about why Asian American film festivals are important, as well as give us a preview of the hottest films coming to LAAPFF 2019.

Learn more about Visual Communication's 2019 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival at festival.vcmedia.org

Intro & outro music for this episode is “Uzuhan” by Kollaboration AltantaAlum, Uzuhan

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Eseel Borlasa & Lindy Leong @vcmediaorg

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On this special episode of the KollabCast, we chat with the newly minted 2019 HBO APA Visionaries finalists at the EMPOWER 2019 kickoff event at RED Studios in Hollywood. Minji chats with Julie Zhan, Nirav Bhatka, and So Young Shelly Yo about their making their films and being named finalists by HBO.

Stream all three finalist films on HBO Now and HBO Go in May and catch the premiere on May 3rd at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival!  

Intro & outro music for this episode is “Star in my Eyes” by Kollaboration Seattle Alum, Gowe

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Julie Zhan @dancejujudance

Nirav Bhakta  @Nirav521

So Yun Shelly Yo IG: @soyoungie.yo

Sujata Day @sujataday

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It's a KollabCast Pop Culture Roundtable! This week, we gather a panel of pop culture experts to talk about what to expect from Asian American led film and television in 2019. We also chat about guilty pleasure reality TV shows, problematic favs, groundhog day stories, and our favorite regency era stories. Our guests this week are Phil Yu from Angry Asian Man, Hanh Nguyen from IndieWire, and Jess Ju from CAPE.

Intro & outro music for this episode is “Star in my Eyes” by Kollaboration Seattle Alum, Gowe

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Phil Yu Angry Asian Man @angryasianman

Hanh Nguyen  Senior Editor, IndieWire @Hahnonymous

Jess Ju CAPE @CAPEUSA

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On this episode, we chat with actor Dallas Liu, who plays Shuji Ishii-Peters on the Hulu original series Pen15. Dallas shares his experiences learning about what it was like to be a teen in the year 2000, including learning about AIM for the first time. We also chat about how Dallas started acting, and how he balances his budding acting career and school.

Intro & outro music for this episode is “Dear Dancer” by Kollaboration Toronto Alum, The Plaitwrights

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Dallas LiuIG: @dallas_liu

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Multi-talented actor and comedian Sherry Cola joins the KollabCast this week to chat. We talk about her role as Alice (who we must protect) on the hit Freeform series Good Trouble. Sherry also tells us about her personal story of how she ended up becoming a performer and shares a few of her reality TV guilty pleasures.

Intro & outro music for this episode is “Dear Dancer” by Kollaboration Toronto Alum, The Plaitwrights

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Sherry Cola@shrrycola

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On this special supersize episode of the KollabCast, we bring you interviews recorded at the 2019 Sundance film festival with Asian American filmmakers, actors, and directors.

Featured in this episode are:

Lulu Wang, Director of The Farewell

Justin Chon (Director), Alex Chi (Producer), and Chris Dinh (Co-Writer) of Ms. Purple

Tiffany Chu, Lead Actor in Ms. Purple

Kelly Sry, Co-Lead Actor in Mope

Tim Tsai, Director of Seadrift

Intro & outro music for this episode is “Dear Dancer” by Kollaboration Toronto Alum, The Plaitwrights

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Lulu Wang@thumbelulu

Justin Chon@justinchon

Chris Dinh@chrisdinh

Tiffany Chu@tiffcheww 

Kelly Sry(No social Media yet)

Tim Tsai@TimTsaiFilms 

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Special thanks to Mimi Lu for production support!

The KollabCast is a podcast about pop culture and the creative life from an Asian American perspective

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On this mini-episode of the Kollabcast, Minji chats with Ludi Lin, known best as the new Zack in last year's Saban's Power Rangers Movie, on his new role as Captain Murk in the upcoming DC blockbuster, Aquaman. Minji and Ludi talk about how he got started acting, whether he prefers acting in action or drama films, and more. 

Intro & outro music for this episode is “Dear Dancer” by Kollaboration Toronto Alum, The Plaitwrights

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Ludi Lin@ludi_lin

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On this episode, we return to San Diego for the 2018 San Diego Asian Film Festival to chat with our friend Brian Hu. Brian is one of the co-hosts of fellow Potluck Pod Saturday School as well as the Artistic Director of SDAFF. Long-time listeners know that this guy knows his movies and we have a blast reflecting on the outstanding year Asian Americans have been experiencing on the big screen.

Intro & outro music for this episode is “Dear Dancer” by Kollaboration Toronto Alum, The Plaitwrights

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Brian HuArtistic Director at Pacific Arts Movement@husbrian

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It's a full house on this episode of the KollabCast. This week we welcome the full cast of East West Player's production of Vietgone, the critically acclaimed play by Qui Nguyen about his parent's love story in a relocation camp in Arkansas after the fall of Saigon. Paul Yen, Sylvia Kwan, Jane Lui, Scott Ly, and Albert Park share their experiences working on the play, and Paul and Scott share their thoughts of playing Vietnamese refugees as Vietnamese American actors. Also a bonus anecdote featuring Andy Lowe, East West Player's Director of Production. 

Watch Vietgone, playing now at East West Players in Los Angeles AND opening soon at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnepeg!

Intro & outro music for this episode is “MouseDeer” off the album Letters to Ubin by Kollab Alum Inch Chua

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Paul Yen - TW: @hellopaulyen

Scott Ly - IG: @IScottLy

Jane Lui - IG: @Surrija

Sylvia Kwan - IG: @kwansyl

Albert Park - has no socials

Andy Lowe - TW: @ChinesePirate

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On this episode, we catch up with Singer-Songwriter Inch Chua, one of Singapore's biggest Indie artists and also a Kollaboration Alum. Past guests and fellow Kollab Alum Priska and Alfa join Marvin as special co-hosts as Inch chats about what she's been up to lately, the growth of independent art in Singapore, and the imminent ecological disaster caused by climate change. She also makes bird sounds!

Intro & outro music for this episode is “MouseDeer” off the album Letters to Ubin by our guest Inch Chua

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Inch Chua@inchchua

Alfa@alfa_music

Priska@priskamusik

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