Live From The Asian Film Festival Of Dallas 2017

Well, all right, it is five o'clock on the east coast.
It is two o'clock on the west coast.
It is Saturday, July the 15th in the year of our Lord 2017.
And I finally get to say it, season eight, episode one, 704 times.
This voice has welcomed you to the Clubhouse podcast.
We're very happy you're listening to matter where you are, whether you're live on
the U stream or subscribing on your favorite podcasting app.
We're just glad that you're here.
If things sound a little weird because number one, it's not Sunday.
We decided we were going to start the season a day early.
But number two, we're live at the Angelica Film Center in Dallas.
We almost feel like we're veterans at this place now.
We're here so much, but we love coming here.
We are here covering the 2017 Asian Film Festival of Dallas.
We're going to have some guests coming on very, very shortly, but let's go around the
days.
To my left is my co-host and a man who apparently had to choose four different ties, who's
for his wife approved of one of them today.
He is Chad.
Welcome, sir.
You know me on the close horse.
I'm glad you said I had ended that with an SE.
That would have been very awkward otherwise.
Also in front of him is the official fact checker of the show and a man who has eight days
left until he becomes betrothed.
Is the sign on done?
You may know him as fond don go, but his mom and even Don Ford, I'm going to call him
Don Ford.
Hello, sir.
Betrothed.
We had to start the year off with a word you didn't understand.
We're registered at Bed Baths and Beyond.
That you are.
And you have this very nice picture frame of you and your wife.
Do you see this?
Yes.
So, of your wife to be.
Yeah.
Also joining us for her first remote with the show, helping Don out and slowly working
her way into that, I don't know, we call it an intern role for him.
So that way, if Don's getting ready to be married, his schedule could change.
You don't know.
This is true.
So, here with us for her first remote, it is a friend of the show and Lady of the House
Gen Rome.
How are you, friend?
I am excellent.
Good evening, everyone.
Wow.
Season 8 has begun.
Now, this does mean we're not going to be doing the show tomorrow.
So we are not.
We are not.
Okay.
That way, we just one show a weekend plus, you know, you've got to head back to San Antonio
tomorrow.
You're here for about what, 36 hours and head back to San Antonio for it.
You know, I had a lot of take care of today.
We got all done.
I know.
So, and the thing is, is that we have a show next week.
Yeah.
So, if you missed the season finale last week, I want to thank everybody for tuning in
for our show before WWE Great Balls of Fire.
I actually got an email about some stuff from Great Balls of Fire from a friend of the
show, Alex Barnhill.
We want to thank him for that great email, some great discussion.
He ended it by saying one of my things is, I don't work this much into my actual job.
So, he went a lot into some of the stories that we talked about on last week's show.
Some great points that he made in there.
And I want to thank him.
I wanted to know that we did read his email.
I'm going to be responding to that in the next couple of days.
So, thank you so much for that, Alex.
But if you missed last week's show, we did announce that Don is getting married.
And not only is Don getting married next Sunday, July the 23rd, we're going to be Facebook
liveing it.
We have the bride's approval.
Yes, we do.
We had to get her sign off.
It's very important.
Of course.
I will be performing the ceremony.
So, I'm probably going to be lying on Chad to do the camera work next Sunday.
No, no, that's Devon.
Oh, Devon's going to do it.
Oh, Devon's going to be doing it.
So, Devon's going to be doing the Facebook live.
This Devon knows this.
Oh, yeah.
I'll get the text from him.
He said, oh, yeah.
I'll recon.
So, we're going to have some fun next weekend.
We hope that you'll join us on Facebook live so you can witness the wedding of the day.
I'm not going to go any farther than that.
Yeah.
So, again, registered a bedbath and beyond.
You could go on the internet site and order something there and ship it to us.
You don't even have to go into this door so anybody worldwide.
That's right.
And you're not obligated.
He's just putting that out there.
You're not obligated, but he'll be really, really thankful of you.
If you'd like to follow the rob rule of doing a kindness post on social media, that would also make a lovely gift is to put just kind words on social media on that day.
Exactly.
All right.
But we're at a festival.
You know us.
We got to go.
All right.
Chad and I are going to chitchat here for the while.
And I'm off the shadow.
That's right.
For those of you that have asked, yes, I'm still dealing with the aftermath of the wisdom tooth removal.
This is day 10.
God.
Yeah.
I'm told it's like three to four weeks now.
God.
I really should have had this done in my 20s.
But, you know, I was young and stubborn and now I'm old and stubborn.
So we do have a friend of the show joining us right now.
A guy that doesn't really get to join us very often to film festivals because he's so all over the place.
Daniel Durant welcomes her.
It's always good to see you.
Always.
Always.
Last time we got to talk to you.
We got to talk to you.
We got to talk to you.
Was that the Earth X film festival?
That was a great fact.
That's a blast at that.
I was exhausted by this.
I get to see Rick Perry lie like a Trump.
And please remember all of the opinions stated on this show may or may not reflect those of those on the show proper.
That's the beauty of the show.
So do you want to talk about the project or that you guys have going on that you were showing us a little bit earlier for the show?
I don't know.
I was thinking y'all was wanting to talk about a Dallas observer 30th anniversary.
Robo friend of the show.
Danny Gallagher got the cover of the observer this week.
So proud and happy.
Such a fan of that dude.
Such a great guy.
And he's been doing this for a long time.
He actually gave a shout out to the show.
And it's one of his recent articles from the Texas pinball festival.
We got a shout out.
Yeah, because he and I were having a conversation.
He was the purpose of his article is he was trying to play every pinball machine there in one day.
Good lord.
And so I he and I were having a conversation.
I was saying you know your best bet might be during dinner time because a lot of people will leave to go get dinner.
And he put that conversation in his article with my name and a link to our website.
Which is awesome.
Which is awesome.
www dot the clubhouse podcast.com.
Which is kind of cool.
And Danny's a great guy and he got the cover talking about the 30th anniversary of his first cover.
This is his first one, isn't it?
And for those of you that don't know Robo cop a chunk of that was filmed here in Dallas.
Dallas City Hall doubled as Detroit City Hall.
No, it doubled as the O.C.
Oh, was it the O.C.?
Yeah.
Corporate office.
Yeah, they're O.C.P. headquarters.
So and then we had the one of the big houses in the film that you visit quite often is right here in North Dallas.
I love that spot.
And it, it, it, it, it, it's actual nickname is the clubhouse.
Oh, is it really?
Yeah.
The people who live there prefer to call it the clubhouse.
Very nice.
We'll let that go.
We put the forward podcast on the inner bar.
So kind of set it apart just a little bit.
A lot going on in the entertainment industry.
Let's talk about some new releases coming up.
Movies this week coming out this week of a show that we got to check out called The Big Sick.
A few weeks ago, very big fan of this film very much enjoyed it.
It's not, if you've seen the trailer, it's not necessarily what you think it's about.
And I'm going to leave it at that.
But it is a true story about the guy from Silicon Valley.
And how he and his wife came to be husband and wife about cultural differences and things.
Well, and Kumall really kind of, I mean, he's been out there as a stand up committee and an actor forever.
But a lot of people, I think, know him from Franklin and Bash.
Oh, yes.
He was the Mark Paul Gosler.
Yes.
He was the, he was the, he was the, the, uh, a Gora phobic assistant that went to, uh, law school with.
And so he was their law school assistant who would only go, uh, live via the web or the, uh, chats.
He wouldn't leave their house, which was their office.
Oh, okay, fair enough.
Are we, are we waiting on somebody else down?
Oh, okay, sure.
We have a just good guy that I guess joining us right now.
Hello, sir.
This is Kang Son from the boy upstairs.
How are you?
Fine.
Thank you.
So we were talking before the show.
Your, your show, uh, your movie is showing when?
Yeah.
What time?
Uh, you, actually it was screened.
Oh, okay.
Already?
Yeah, already.
So you missed it.
Ah, story of my life.
But did, am I correct?
You filmed this entire movie in two and a half days?
Yes, right.
Definitely.
Did you, so I'm assuming you didn't sleep at all for two and a half days?
But yes, we had the last sleep.
I'm sorry to my friends who helped me, but it is actually,
we, university in South Korea.
And students film.
So you filmed it over there?
Yeah, South Korea.
Okay, how long ago did you film it?
How long?
Yeah, well, when, when did you film it?
Oh, last year.
Oh, so it's been that long?
Yeah.
It's, um, how many times have you shown the movie before now?
Uh, I was, it was, maybe I get three times, two times in South Korea.
And one time in, I guess, London.
So this is the first time in America?
Yeah, right.
It's almost shown.
Yeah, I've never been to the country where people speak English,
so I was very nervous.
And actually, I imagine that American people are on generous.
But now I am here.
I can feel the Southern generosity, Southern hospitality.
I was, I was hoping you would say that.
So it's been a good experience for you.
Yeah, it's my, actually, this opportunity is great for me.
How did the, uh, the screening go?
Was it well received?
Yeah.
Actually, uh, it was awesome because you are the people of different backgrounds,
but you guys understand what I intended.
So that was very awesome experience to me.
Super cool.
Well, tell our listeners what the film is about.
Uh, my film is about the loss of their loss of family.
It is the girl who lost, who lost his younger brother,
uh, wanted to throw away his stuff like robot or clothes,
but his mother, her mother did not want to.
So he, he had a plan to throw away,
but at that suddenly, Upstairs Boy came into and he snatched them.
So she, she go upstairs to take it back.
How long is the film?
Uh, 10 minutes.
Oh, it's a short.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Uh, so was it amongst a lot of other shorts?
Is there a big block of films there?
Yeah, drama shorts.
Did you have time for a Q&A after the film?
Yeah.
How did that go?
I was really shocked because actually in other film festivals,
uh, it is my second film and, and when I made a first film,
I, I went another other film festivals.
Actually, the movie goals are very shy, I guess.
But in this festival, the first question really quickly popped up.
So good.
Yeah, it was very good experience.
Did you get asked any questions that took you longer to answer,
or were they all questions that you felt you were prepared to answer?
Oh.
I did not prepare, but, but they asked about, uh, about the boy,
because he is really young, I guess.
In American age, he will be six.
Okay.
He is six years old, but actually he acts.
So, interesting part was that someone about,
someone asked about how you had the boy cry.
So, it was important in the movie.
And, uh, actually, in fact, in audition,
he really cried well, but when we had real shooting,
he denied crying.
Because he, he went to, he came to me,
and a director, I do not want to cry.
So, I, I asked him, and I, um, called him.
So, he asked me, if I, if he, um, cry, if he cried well,
then, will you give me the robot in the props?
So, yeah.
Yeah.
You're ready for Hollywood, sir, bribery.
Yeah.
Always, always the best policy.
Yeah, I, I bribed him, so he cried well.
Do you want to make a longer version of it, or is this?
Oh, it is, it is just short intended.
Okay.
So, uh, how many, is this your, is this your first film,
or have you done a bunch of films before?
It is my second film, and yeah.
And I have just made my third film two weeks ago,
so that's why I'm really enjoying this first film.
Getting a chance to take a break a little bit.
Yeah, right.
Is this also a short, or is it a longer film that you just finished?
It is, it is also short.
I guess it will be my last short film,
and I'm going to prepare my feature film sometimes soon.
What kind of filmmakers influence you?
Ah.
Influence?
Who, who are your favorite filmmakers?
Ah.
It is a very harsh cast, to the film, right?
You know, very...
Well, was there someone in this short film
that you were trying to emulate, someone with their story
that really had a lot of effect on what you were trying to tell in this story?
Oh, yeah.
Actually, Satya Jitri, this is right.
He was, he is an Indian director, but he died now.
And he made a silence film.
And his films will be screened in this best food.
It is one of my wish.
Yeah, I want to watch his film.
But my role model director is the actually American director,
like Hitchcock.
Everybody loves him.
And the director of Baby Driver.
At your right.
That movie is so good.
Actually, that movie is not released in South Korea.
So when I first came here, I went to the multiplexed chain cinema.
You got off the plane and went, take me to Baby Driver right now.
As you said, because it's such a great film.
It is an amazing film.
I'm looking forward to seeing more praise coming in for that.
Actually, my first and third film is Black Comedy.
I really loved the comedy that is visualized.
So I love American comedy.
But what I am, I think, but they are all the dialogue.
But as you all right, really do visualizing comedy.
Agreed.
Yeah, he really hit it on all cylinders with that,
with the visual elements and how he worked the music into the choreography of the Chases.
It blew my mind.
Yeah.
It was amazing.
Are there any other movies right now that you're looking forward to seeing just as a fan?
Oh, and I want to see Trivista in this festival.
Okay.
And it is the centerpiece film.
Okay.
And I'm going to watch God of War.
It's tonight.
Yeah.
It's a matter of fact.
Yeah.
Samohung is in that, is he not?
I don't know.
I think he is.
Samohung.
Oh, yeah.
Samohung.
Oh, yeah.
Very well known here.
Oh, yeah.
Most definitely.
Where's the next place your film is going to be seen at?
Party.
Is there another film festival you're going to with your movie?
Yeah.
But only the distributor knows.
Oh, okay.
I'm sorry, but in fact, it will be heard in London.
I heard so.
Yeah.
So another chance for you to go see another country.
Yeah.
I'm sorry, but my distributor will distribute again in the United States.
So I hope that it can be screened in the United States sometime soon, near soon.
Okay.
Before we let you go, I want you to take a minute.
Tell everybody where they can go see a website or Facebook or anything like that so they can connect with you.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, you can visit the website KMC.KARTS.com.
Okay.
KARTS.com.
KARTS.com.
Okay.
And search the boy upstairs.
All right.
It will be there.
Kong Sam, thank you so much for joining us.
You're welcome.
It was very honored to be here.
Oh, honored to have you, sir.
I'm sorry for my broken English.
No, don't be.
Well, congratulations on having your short in the Asian Film Fest of Dallas.
And thanks for being here.
Thank you so much.
We're going to have some other people come in now.
Yeah.
Thank you so much.
All right.
We got pictures being taken of us.
That is one of the greatest parts of Film Fest is the travel, the outreach, the connecting with a fan base.
Absolutely.
And creating a new fan base where people may not have been able to see or share.
Most of them, yeah.
All right.
We're going to have to bump you down because we actually have somebody.
We're going to do something we've never done before.
And our season premiere of season eight.
We're actually going to be working with a translator, sir.
Oh, okay.
We've never done this before.
So this is going to be a lot of fun.
Well, first of all, we're going to let the translator introduce herself to everybody who you are.
Hello.
My name is Sam Mimpak.
I'll be translating the director Shin Zhong Hong.
And the civil road.
Did I say that correctly?
That's right.
All right.
Welcome.
Hello.
Thank you for being here.
All right.
Let's first of all talk about.
Is this a shorter or full length?
This is a short.
This is a short.
How long?
How long is it?
It's 24 minutes and 45 seconds.
Oh, wow.
That's a longer short than a lot of them.
Has it shown yet or is it going to be shown?
You mean at the festival?
Yes, ma'am.
Oh, it's already shown.
Was it also in the same block that we had the boy upstairs?
Were they in the same block?
No, no, no, no.
Oh, no, no, no.
This was in the late night short box at 11 p.m. last night.
Okay, good, good, good.
Chad, Chad, check it in.
Everyone on the tree is still there.
Yes, I'm doing the factor.
And in the pre-show, you and I spoke.
And if I'm not mistaken, you said this.
The whole thing, 24-minute short shot in five days.
Did you sleep at all or did they just power through it?
How do you squeeze all of that into five days?
Like we asked our previous guest.
Did he sleep at all or did they just power through it?
How did they put all of this into the film?
Did you not sleep at all?
Actually, I had a lot of experience with actors and staff in Korea.
So I didn't sleep there for a long time.
But I couldn't sleep because I was with people.
I didn't sleep a lot, but I didn't sleep.
Actually, the actors and actresses that I worked with for this film,
they were all professionals.
So they were very swift and they were able to get it done.
I mean, we did not do it with that sleep,
but we did do a lot of extra hours.
So how many times has the film been shown before last night?
So how many times has the film been shown before last night?
How many times has the film been shown before last night?
In Korea, about 10 films were shown in the film industry.
In overseas films, Japanese, American, Boston LGBT films,
Palm Springs films, and in the film industry, about 10 films were shown in the film industry.
Actually, in Korean festival, I think there were about like 10 festivals that were shown.
And then internationally, in Japan, in America,
like actually Boston LGBT during that festival, it was chosen.
Palm Springs, it was viewed, and then I think about 10 different festivals.
So let's ask the important question, what's the film about?
Okay.
So the most important question, the question is the question.
What is the film about?
First of all, two women,
the women who are in the middle of the body,
the women who are in the middle of the body,
how could they understand that woman?
Actually, it's about two different women.
One woman, mid-age, she's selling her body to make living.
And then another woman is actually,
it's a person that wants to become a woman, and you know,
she's also selling her body, she has to work on the street.
And how can these two different people can understand each other?
And how can they both kind of work and cooperate and kind of be working together?
What brought him to this story?
I mean, he wrote or just somebody else wrote?
And if so, what inspired him to do this film?
Did the director write all of this?
Then why did he write this story?
Among my friends,
a lot of my friends,
I used to have friends with my friends,
and one of my family members was a company house.
But I was so tired and I was so scared to see my friends.
Before that, I used to have friends with my friends,
and I was very exhausted,
and I was understanding them,
but when I came in, I was able to see a lot of different people.
But it's still a problem related to LGBT.
So we went out to Korea,
and I thought that we should go out and go out to the South.
So I wanted to keep that in mind,
and I wanted to keep that in mind.
I wanted to keep that in mind.
Actually, I had a friend who had friends of LGBT,
and that person was very accepting, embracing the LGBT community.
But when that person found that,
the family member was gay,
and the family member came out as gay,
that person really, really struggled to embrace and accept.
And so that was my experience that made me think more about this issue.
And LGBT in Korea,
the community here, and internationally,
I'm sure, what can be one advanced step more that we can do
to actually, you know, for us to better understand and embrace.
And that's what I was hoping to kind of include or express in my film.
How did the screening go last night?
How did the screening go last night?
How did it go?
Like in Korea,
I was so curious about people in the United States,
but I didn't think it was a big deal.
And I had a lot of questions,
so I'm really thankful for that.
Actually, the response that I felt from last night's screening
was not that different from the ones that I got from Korea.
Actually, that was a little bit more shocking to me,
and that was a little bit more surprising.
And I was very surprised that many people showed a lot of interest,
and they asked a lot of questions.
And I was really grateful that they took great interest.
Did he get any questions that he wasn't expecting?
Did you get any questions that he wasn't expecting?
Did you get any questions that he wasn't expecting?
I didn't expect anything from the screening,
but I didn't expect much from that.
I didn't expect a lot,
but I was so surprised that I didn't expect any from that.
Actually, the question that I was really shocked about was that when somebody asked, when
the question was asked about how long it took for me to finish the film.
And I said five days and when people were really shocked, and I'm kind of a little surprised
with that.
And I'm kind of wondering, wait a second, did I do something wrong here?
I think it's more of the concept of people are impressed when you can get a film done
in that kind of a time frame, you know, from what I can, from the feeling I'm getting
out, we're talking, I think it's more people being impressed by pulling something off
in that kind of a time frame versus doing something wrong.
I mean, I think that especially as much as people are asking for the film, that's got
to be a testament to getting something of that kind of quality done in that kind of a time
frame.
If you think life was a great idea, that people were not well-off, it's not
Thank you so much. Thank you. Where is the film going from here?
So what is the story of the film going from here?
There is no plan for the next step.
There is another film going from here.
We are preparing for the next film in May.
What is the story of the film going from here?
There is no plan for the next step.
I don't know if it's going to be different.
There is a problem. I'm not sure if it's going to be different from that.
I think it's going to be different from the film going from here.
There is another project, future project as well.
Before we let you go, we want to get all of the plugs in.
So tell us about social media websites where they can get in contact and connect with this film.
Okay. So, social media, modern social media, can you tell us a little bit more about the film going from here?
So, please cover up all the data.
Is there a data about Facebook or Twitter?
I am doing Facebook, but it's a personal Facebook.
It's not very clear when you are talking about the movie.
It's only when you go out and upload the data.
So, what do you think of humans?
Humans?
Oh, humans?
Actually, it's my personal Facebook.
I don't really have one but my personal Facebook.
I update all the events that's happening with my film.
All right.
Thank you so much for sitting down.
We're gonna let you enjoy the evening.
We're looking forward to seeing some more things from this
as it comes down the future.
Okay.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
And thank you for helping out.
My pleasure.
All right.
So you are listening to the Clubhouse podcast.
We are live at the Angelica Film Center in Dallas.
One of our second homes, I guess you could call this place.
We're here quite a bit.
And we're gonna be here even after this show tonight.
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This is our second year covering this festival.
Don sat back down.
He's already got our next guest.
What's going on?
That was a first.
That was a first.
You've never done that before.
Check another one off the list, brother.
We got someone else, so let's keep it going.
All right, we're gonna let you introduce yourself,
talk right into that thing.
Okay, hi.
My name is Hugh Gray.
And I'm directed and starred in a short film called The Ace Hotel.
And it's about a minute and a half and it's based on a poem that I wrote that I turned
into a film.
Did it show last night or is it about to show?
Yes, it showed on last night.
How did it go?
It went really well.
This was the premiere of the film.
So I was really interested to see how people were reacting.
Tell them about what, since it's based on the poem, where does the poem come from?
So the poem is called The Ace Hotel as well.
And this was a poem that I wrote a couple of years ago, but still always tweaking.
And the poem is about The Ace Hotel, which is an actual hotel in LA and downtown LA.
And so the hotel kind of acts as a metaphor for a time machine.
And so there's this a cycle of events that keeps happening over and over again.
Wow.
And you got all that into 90 seconds?
Well, I'm coming from, well, I used to be a TV producer and I focused on promotion.
So a lot of my things were 30 seconds.
So 90 seconds for me was like, I have all the time in the world.
I used to cramming this and do a third of that.
How long did it take you to shoot it?
It's, we shot it over one day because see, a lot of people think, oh, it's a minute and
a half.
She went into her backyard.
I'm like, no, people don't understand.
It's not only shoot something, but get it into with that kind of a time frame.
This is not something that, you know, I'm on my lunch break.
I'm going to go film this thing real quick.
What prompted you to take?
Because you said you wrote the problem two years ago.
A couple years ago.
Was it something that you thought about, you know, I could make this into a short or did
that kind of evolve into what it became?
You know, it really evolved because first, first of all, I just wrote it because I was
a poet and it wasn't in the tool last year when I started thinking about turning my poems
into film.
But I feel my poems have always had this visual aspect and so I think the filmmaking part
was just this natural transition.
Do you see this something that can evolve into a bigger, longer deal or is it right where
kind of where you wanted, given the way you wrote it?
Yeah, I definitely feel this is something that I want to evolve into longer pieces.
This was just one part of a bigger part, but this was the part that was finished first
and I wanted to get it out as soon as possible.
So this is, yes, it will evolve into something bigger.
If you have your choice, does this turn into something that's more like an hour and a
half longer epic or is it something that you'd want to do maybe episodically or would you
rather do it's kind of all in one chunk?
I think the episodic thing is where I've kind of got traction and success from of just
releasing one thing and then releasing another.
So I see it as doing a serial, more as a series as opposed to one piece, but it would still
be one overarching.
So before last night, how many times it had been shown?
This was the first time it was shown.
Oh wow, very nice.
How did it go?
I think it went really well.
It was part of the late night programming block and so for that programming block, it was
more like avant-garde, more serious adult subject matter, which was really a great place
for it.
And so I, for me, I thought it was very, it's a very shocking piece kind of and so I really
wanted to see how people were going to react where they're going to be offended by it
or where they're going to kind of get it or where they're just going to scratch your
heads.
So, and it was a good response.
How'd the Q and A go afterwards?
The Q and A went really well.
People want it to know more about the film.
So when do you think that you're going to dive back into the pool on this?
You're going to kind of let this breathe for a while or if you already got the plan for
the next installment and then where it goes from here?
Or are you just going to kind of let it happen as it happens?
I think it will be half and half because I do already have chapters of the next couple
of parts and after getting the reception that I did, I think I'm going to definitely
just dive right back into it.
Is this your first quote, I guess I'd say quote on quote, but is this your first solo
project or have you been working on other things before this?
This is, this is my sink and film that I've worked on.
My first one was also a video poem and that one was based on a poem by Silvia Pat
flat called Lady Lazarus and so I really enjoyed doing that and so this is my sink
and one where it's actually a poem that I wrote.
So when can we look forward to the next chapter?
Do you have a time frame or are you just going to, I'm going to do it when it's ready?
I think not a time frame at this moment but definitely something by the end of the year
and I do have a website where I have my other film, Lady Lazarus on and that's at the
MovingWorriedProject.com if anyone wants to do it.
Perfect segue, you ever done the show before but obviously you know how this works so that's
great is because before because we've got to let you go enjoy the evening because that's
what you're here to do and not talk to these two slubs but we always are about shameless
self promotion so give everybody websites, Twitter, Facebook, social media, however they
can get in contact you as far as just connecting with you and connecting with this film.
So the main website is the MovingWorriedProject.com.
And right now I'm just, I feel like I'm at the beginning stages of being a filmmaker
and for me I think it's also important to kind of know my background story because I was
for over a decade I was a producer at CNN and I did mostly the marketing, the promotions
doing, the 30-sinking commercials and now I've been segueing into the poetry and the
filmmaking.
Awesome.
Well we're looking forward to seeing you more from you.
Thank you for sitting down with us and your silent partner who did not want to talk and
that's okay we're okay with that too.
Even though this is an audio medium we're going to let it slide.
You guys go enjoy the evening.
Okay thank you.
Thank you for sitting down with us.
We are live the Clubhouse Podcast.
We are at the Angelica Film Center in Dallas for the 2017 Asian Film Festival of Dallas.
It's funny how that works out.
No show tomorrow night because we're doing the show now.
No show next Sunday night by technical definition.
This is true.
The show will be Facebook live next Sunday night for Don's Wedding.
We've got to come up with a snappy name for Don's Wedding.
I've got enough creative minds here around here.
We'll figure something out.
Dang it's back with us.
Donna Paloza.
I'm going to say is it Donna Paloza, it has to be Florida Paloza because she's involved
too.
Yeah that's very, very, very, very true.
Dave 2017.
I got it at some point because we're at the Asian Film Festival of Dallas.
Discuss a film that from the...
Somebody's ringing.
Dallas International Film, what not me.
Dallas International Film Festival from a few years back my way is a film that I know
y'all got to see the Korean made film about World War II and the...
I believe we did.
The guys that got sucked into being part of the Russian Army and then sucked into being
part of the German Army and then sucked into it, which was actually based on real life
events.
Okay.
And it is one of those films that has creeped into my top 10 of all time.
Really?
You know I think you've talked about it on the show before.
I just...
I love that movie man.
It's one of those things where I always feel like I connect with the Asian filmmakers
because everyone from Korea has seen it.
I mean that guy, the Kenjo man, I got to look the name up.
I can't say it off the top of my head, but he is pretty much Korea's the way it was
described to me from his...
He was... his assistant was he is their Spielberg.
He is their, you know, their George Lucas.
He's the guy that, you know, has done more with less for bigger than anyone else.
But I mean that movie was made for five million dollars and just if you ever get a chance
to see the film my way, I know it's an odd name, it almost sounds like it should be a...
Sinatra film?
I was going to say a Sinatra film, but, you know...
And now the end is in me.
Alright, we have another guest joining us.
Or two, I don't know what's going on.
I just work here.
Go ahead and put your headphones on.
I think Dom was telling me to stay seated and be in the zone.
Okay, so you're...
Go ahead and write into that microphone, introduce yourself to our audience please.
Hi, I'm Juhi Williamson.
I'm a part of the work at Giving Circle, one of the sponsors for the Women's Show
case.
Tell us about your organization, please.
Sure.
Giving Circle is the member-driven, I guess, not-for-profit group that every member is responsible
for $2,500 or more.
Per year?
Per year?
Yes.
It has a commitment.
So there is a member and there are donors.
Members are more like a board members.
Okay, talk right into that thing because I want everybody to hear you.
Okay.
There you go.
Much much better.
Oh, there we go.
We have a lot of members and donors are the ones that we also rely on for the fundraising.
So all the funds that we raise go into providing the grant to the not-for-profit organizations
that enhances and empower the women, especially Asian women in the North Texas community.
So every year we go through the grant proposal process, then we give out the grant.
Just when we gave five organizations, $75,000, and we're in the third year.
So we're looking at $2,000, $2,000, that's our goal.
So our grant celebration is going to be on October 12th at Crow Museum.
And we're really, really excited to bring more the organizations to be rewarded.
Can you talk more about some of the recipients of your grant?
Sure.
You know, obviously this Asian Film Festival of Dallas is one of them.
We're always looking for the arts organizations or artists.
And they're also about the education or refugees helping organizations or the health-related
matters.
So there were Cafe Mosaic and also Asian breast cancer organizations.
So there are the women, Asian women who didn't really have means to take care of themselves
going through the breast cancer, that's the organization.
And that was really impactful because one of the patients who received the help last
year came out and spoke about what that meant to her.
She didn't speak a nick of English.
There was a translator and it really touched everybody's heart and we're really believe
in what we're doing.
What brought you to the organization?
I'm a partner at Ernst & Young, it's an accounting firm.
Right right down the street here.
Yes, it is.
A nice big building right there by the arena.
There we go, there we go.
And one of the partners at EY, we had a chance to kind of visit each other and she was
talking about, you know, are you interested in getting involved in the community and that's
when I actually had moved to Dallas about a year before and I was feeling like I was floating
around, I was not really grounded in Dallas, I lived in Austin for nine years.
And I said, that's what I actually was looking for.
I wanted to be involved in not for profit organization where my heart is and she talked about
this organization and I didn't really think too much of it until I actually saw the
members and these are the lawyers, like attorneys and other partners and very well established
professionals and they have this heart to enhance the Asian women in North Texas community.
And I think that if I had dreamed about the perfect not for profit organization that
I can be involved, this was it.
Yeah, I could.
So it found you instead of you finding this.
Absolutely right.
And at the way the great things always go.
I'll ask you.
I believe in it.
Yep.
So you have members and you have donors.
How does one become a member?
So member is physically responsible at least $2,500 a year and we're currently at 31 members
who started with seven people.
Wow.
It is a huge commitment for a lot of people, right?
But then we do a lot of social media campaigns and the people who came to the grants
celebration really understand what this does and there is zero admin fee.
Everything goes to the grant, right?
And then even like when the members get together for lunch, it's all out of our pocket, right?
So they see the impact and it goes straight to them and that's how we start gathering
more and then just like any other professionals like being a part of this or giving circle,
it really helped me getting connected to the community and the other female professionals.
I lost my train, okay.
So the members, do they go out and raise the funds on their own or do are there times
when members get together and combine their efforts into a bigger fundraiser?
Absolutely.
So there are various channels that we can raise $2,500.
Someone like me who's so busy that I would rather write a check and they get involved
for other things.
There are a few of those and then other members who are really into having fundraising events
every month.
So most recently we did the Kendra, Kendra gives back to the orchid giving circle.
So the one day, all the proceeds 20% of that went to orchid giving circle, that's what
we actually planned ahead.
One month before then it was makeup and mimosas and the people brought their own makeup back
and we had a couple of makeup artists who donated their time and talent and we learned
how to put the makeup on and all the proceeds went to the fund.
So there are various channels every month that we go through and we're really in the peak
of the fundraising.
You're on kind of on the home stretch because you're like four months away from the gallery.
So is there anything coming up that you want to plug on a big scale right now for our listeners
that may want to get involved?
So there is a survey, I think there is another gathering where we do the survey, like a
kind of buy Indian costume and then the proceeds go to that and you know, watch out every,
you know, there are only 31 members, type orchid giving circle on Facebook.
You will see every single member and their campaigns and get involved and one of the events,
you heard these events, it's really, really fun.
One more thing that we're doing every year is a zip and shop.
We just had it and we're going to have a next year.
So everybody just lightly used really luxury purses, shoes and, you know, garments and
whatnot.
They donated.
We had huge amount of money that we raised because everybody saw Louis Vuitton there.
It's a slightly used but you still love it, right?
So explain the concept of the zip and shop.
Uh-huh.
Because I got the shop part I've got, the zip part is where you got me interested.
So zip is like members donate their wine and champagne and whatnot.
So you zip then shop like it's someone's house and we have it's getting larger and larger.
So now we have to use the entire house to put the garments and shoes and purses and, uh,
fabulous.
It is just that all the girls got together and talked about all these brand names and
whatnot.
It was a lot of fun.
So yeah.
All right.
So before we let you go enjoy the evening because I know you got stuff, you got hands
to shake and babies to kiss and all that good stuff.
Have us all the social media, all the websites, any way people can connect to the orchid
giving circle.
Yes.
First thing you can do is type orchid giving circle and Google.
That's three words.
Yes.
Okay.
So orchid giving circle and it will lead you to two different places.
One is a Facebook and that's where you see all the fun events lined up.
And the second one is we're under Dallas Women's Foundation.
So Dallas Women's Foundation has a specific section for orchid giving circle.
There you can see all the members bios as well.
So you see, you may see someone you recognize, just get, um, talk to them and then they
will get you to fun events.
And then the gala is October 12th.
October 12th.
Okay.
Outstanding.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Enjoy the evening.
Joey Williamson from the orchid giving circle.
That's a local charity.
Get involved.
People get involved.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
You're listening to the Clubhouse podcast.
We're live.
One day nights, uh, we're kicking off season eight tonight here at the Angelica Film Center
in Dallas.
Well, again, we said it earlier, one of our second homes.
We do a lot of screenings here.
Well, we're getting, we're getting selfie chat.
We're getting selfie.
There's a selfie happening right now.
There we go.
Okay.
This kind of freaked me out sometimes.
I was like, okay, hold on.
Because I always wind up like my mouth is gaping open as I'm talking and then that
winds up on the internet.
You know, you know, the internet is, you know, I heard somebody once say that the internet
is both the best bar you've ever been in and the worst bar you've ever been in.
I'm telling you, so at the same time, but we were talking about new releases also this
week in a movie that you checked out last night, a war for playing the apes.
Twice this one.
Oh, wow.
That's right.
Because you saw it on Monday.
So obviously you enjoyed it.
Next we couldn't get that.
You couldn't get enough monkeys.
No.
Next week, the Dunkirk comes out next week, so I'm very interested in 70 millimeter
in some places.
Really would like to see that if we can find out.
Last for Nolan.
Yeah, it's no.
I mean, it's a return to Chris for Nolan.
It's something he's been working on for some time of the layering in the city of a thousand
planets.
I'm not going to be able to go to the screening.
So I won't be able to give you my opinions on it until it comes out.
I saw it because there was a screen this week and I was a little, I don't see where everybody
else is.
Maybe I'm off.
Maybe my loop the song meter is off and needs recalibration.
I must see a fifth element again, I guess.
Los Tripp and Landline, both also coming out this coming week.
Is that rounds out next week's releases where I have another guest joining us?
I have nothing currently.
Don's going to let me go.
Let's go Teresa.
This is Teresa.
Okay.
Teresa has been very patient with me this week because I have not as been as on top of
my correspondence as I should have been.
I apologize.
No.
Returning guest.
Yes.
From last year.
I have like a million things going on as well.
So we were trying to get this, which is why we didn't announce it last week because we
didn't have everything locked down.
And partially that's my fault because these last couple of weeks have been nothing short
of chaos.
We were talking earlier.
I had a wisdom tooth removed last week, so I've been dealing with all that and you know,
everything else.
Okay.
That's all you have to say.
It still should have had this done in my 20s.
Let's just put it to you that way.
I'm not like Logan.
I don't have my mutant healing factor isn't going to carry me on.
I had two wisdom teeth removed in the Navy and in boot camp.
I had all four of them in Orlando, but you see that with that way.
I had two in Orlando and they left two that horizontally impacted for the fleet.
You know you're in trouble when the dentists puts you in a chair and then puts a seatbelt
on you.
Oh dear God.
Because you're in 30 foot swells that day.
That's, you know, I call that Thursday.
I lost my flight status for a week at it and like it.
How are you doing my friend?
I'm good.
So, you know, I'm the publicist for the Asian Film Festival for the past seven years now.
So this is number seven.
It seems like things are going smooth as glass or am I just seeing things because it looks
like everybody's moving around.
There's not a lot of chaos, ducks and water, but yeah, I mean, it's been wonderful.
I'm amazed it's seven years.
Yeah.
For me, for me.
How long does it take to see the festival itself?
This is the 16th.
So all within this millennium, how many films in the festival this year?
In two and a half days?
No, eight days.
Okay.
Eight days.
Seventy films.
I can't even have that one.
Okay.
Some praise me.
I thought it was just this weekend.
I got to say one of the things that I love about Yelts program this year.
It's the only time I've ever seen it in another film fest guide in Lord knows I've been
to my share of film fest.
You have, sir.
Check boxes.
Yes.
Why no one else gives check boxes.
So you can go through and mark your stuff.
You know what your schedule is going to be.
Because I mean, when we do the Dallas International Film Festival, when they release the schedule,
I have to make an Excel workbook just so that I can schedule everything out.
If I had that in the media guide, I could just, okay, this is Thursday.
This is what I'm going to see.
What is the little details?
I remember the badges that you wear, you know, the programs in the back.
I had actually asked them, can you design it on a white, so that way people can take
notes or underline or whatever they want to do with it?
But yeah.
It's an oddity of the places that you really look to go, oh, I got to remember that.
I got to write that down.
It helps me, too.
This is going to be a very dangerous question, but I'm going to ask it anyway.
Is there a film for you going into the festival because now that I'm looking at it, it started
two nights ago.
Thursday.
Yeah.
And then it goes through next Thursday.
It's so close to my eyes.
It's just, is there something going into the festival that you are like, I cannot wait
to see that?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Let's ask, of course, you know, in general, I need to understand like how many films, how
many world premieres, how many filmmakers.
But I always ask David, our director of programming, I always ask him, what kind of film do you
think I would like to watch?
And he knows me.
So now that it's been 70 years.
That does help.
Yeah.
So he, I like the romantic comedy.
I don't like scary splatter blood, you know, stuff like that.
So I've been looking forward to my love cinema, which airs tomorrow during the women's
showcase.
The filmmakers in town, so I'm looking forward to the Q&A, they're comparing it to like
the notebook.
Oh.
And it's a Singaporean film.
So this, it's our only Singaporean film during the film festival.
So it makes it more unique and I like that.
And also she films it in a time period like from what I understand, like the 50s, kind
of that 40s, 50s era.
I like that.
I like cinematography.
So I'm looking forward to that.
So after next Thursday, how much breathing time do you get before we're full bore into
the 2018 festival?
You know, it's pretty turnkey with the group here.
I mean, they're really good about like turning it back around.
And it's, so I don't have to do anything like until like the four, four months leading up
to it.
Okay.
I mean, that's a programming thing where they're like, okay, let's get right into it and
look into what's out there and what's available.
Outside of the festival, what's the movie you're looking to move forward to right now?
Ooh.
Oh.
That one, what's that called?
Baby driver.
Oh, it's so good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh my god.
We checked it out last month.
Yeah.
I saw it at South Bay.
I was legit.
Yeah.
I was a while ago.
Yeah.
And I'd seen it three times.
It's really.
It really is.
That's good.
The name is of that great.
But you get it within the context of the film because that's his name is baby.
Oh.
Yeah.
And he's a getaway driver.
Oh.
And there's a song on the soundtrack.
Yeah.
Of course.
Yeah.
From Simon Garfunkel called baby driver.
Oh.
I can't wait.
And I love the concept of it.
I love the execution.
And when you talk about the soundtrack, there are deep cuts in this that one point they actually
play young MCs.
I come off, which that's a deep cut from his first album.
Like, I heard it.
I was like, am I the only one in the audience?
Yeah.
Because when it starts off, you think it's something else.
But it sounds like Steve from CHAP.
Yeah.
Edgar Wright is that age group.
Yeah.
I mean, he's in my same age group.
There's a lot of, you know, like I was saying earlier in my high school newspaper, we
voted on the time to get ill as 924.
Because you can't.
Little Beastie boys.
The big screen for sure.
You have the big screen.
Oh, absolutely.
Oh.
I guess I can watch it in my home theater system.
And I hate to say, but I think it's one of those Jamie Foxe roles that he just excels at.
You and I disagree there.
And don't always get to play.
He was the Albatross of it for me.
He was so over the top.
But some of the best work I've ever seen John Ham do.
Oh, yeah.
He crushes it in this.
Yeah.
And spacey.
So it's like layers.
I heard that there's layers to it.
I love that.
And spacey is back in his element.
Like this role is the kind of role that spacey should always play.
So who was the writer with the momentum?
He said, right.
It's all like a right.
This is what's genre the dead.
Yeah, he directed a music video in the 90s.
That was this basic story that he just expanded into a full film.
Okay.
And he choreographs the chase scenes to the music.
Oh my God.
It's, it's mind blown.
It's like artistic.
One word for you.
Tequila.
Yeah.
So you'll know it when you see it.
Okay.
Let's get back to the matter in hand.
How many countries represented in the festival this year?
Oh, at least seven or ten.
Because we were flipping through the media guy.
And I was like, wow, there's some stuff coming.
Well, there's always, we always have Japanese represented Chinese, Taiwanese, South Korea.
Hong Kong, if you count that, it's a different thing.
Some do.
Yeah.
Taiwan too.
It's like, you know, some people don't.
There's some South Korea.
We started the show in South Korea.
There's one Thai film.
There's a film from France and there's a film from Germany that are Asian-American
directed.
So yes, I want to be, make sure that we're clear upon that, that this not just Asian
countries are involved.
What's it, what, give our listeners the criteria of what qualifies it to be in this festival?
Asian produced, Asian directed, or main characters are Asian, Asian actor.
So it does, it can be any genre.
It can be from anywhere.
We have films from California.
We have a filmmaker who's going to be on with you guys later.
He is from Vancouver, Canadian.
So we have films from everywhere.
It doesn't matter where you're from as long as the content, the subject matter, you know,
you have a producer, a director, or an actor, actress.
And a big one tonight, God of War, tonight with Samo Hong, the name that American audiences
haven't heard for a very long time.
He was on a CBS series for a bunch of years.
It was a cop show and I can't remember the name of it off-hand, but only there was some
kind of a database of internet, movies that you could find these things on.
I got the app.
Okay.
Are you seeing that, God of War?
We may or may not.
It's going to depend on what time, we've got some other things we've got to do.
The subject matter.
Yeah.
And it depends on what time we can get everything packed up and, you know, we've got to get
everything.
We want to give the angelica back their space at some point.
So the festival started two nights ago.
There's stuff every day all the way through next Thursday.
So you said 70 films or at least seven different countries involved.
When do you start picking films for next year?
Is that just an immediate thing or is there some-
At least by January or February.
So you're giving filmmakers time to kind of get their ducks in a row.
So do you have to watch any of the films leading up to or are you just responsible for making
sure there's people coming in the door?
I'm not responsible for watching any of the films.
I wish I did have the time where I could watch the films, the programming, they do all
of that.
And then I just get the synopsis of everything and then try to wrap my head around it,
you know.
But this year our big thing is we have our women's showcase, our very first woman's showcase.
Which is awesome.
That's all day Sunday.
We have a woman's reception at 5.30, where we have food and mixing and mingling and all that.
To jump in here on Sam Holland.
Yes, Sam.
I'm going to slap yourself a little.
Oh, I already have.
Uh-oh.
I.P. Man or Ip Man.
Right.
There are a lot of people.
That's a typical one.
And then three kingdoms was another one that a large amount of audiences.
Because I scroll down because the the foreign Asian actors are crazed on their work schedules.
So you really have to scroll down.
But then the first thing I saw TV show was that brought my attention was Walker Texas Ranger.
He did.
He did four episodes.
Really?
No, but there was a show that he did in early edition LA doctors may have been one of the
big ones, 98.
It was a cop show.
I know that.
I'm not.
I was on CBS.
I'm going to have to look it up.
I can't right now.
I'm not going to.
But I know who specifically researchers Sam Oh, he's in God of war tonight.
All right.
So before we go, because we're going to let you go, because we got people coming, anything
else you want to plug?
Give us the website for the festival and everything else Asianfilm Dallas dot com.
And the official hashtag is afd 2017.
Yes.
Okay.
It can be that.
Yes.
Oh, no, no.
It's okay.
It's okay.
Okay.
Thank you so much.
Yes.
Not only for being with us for having us here.
And if you'll have us next year, we're going to do it again.
Yeah.
For sure.
Oh, that's Don's line.
Hold on.
Can we come back next year?
Yes.
Okay.
Thank you.
I was going to show your focus because you know, Don's getting married next weekend.
Yeah.
So his focus is a little bit off right now.
Yeah.
So we got to make sure he's coming.
Thank you, my friend.
Enjoy your evening.
Well, that was podcast.
Congratulations.
I know.
I'm going in and out.
It's weird when, you know, when we have people that can walk behind us.
I've got that literally have 360 vision when we're here.
Some friends of the show are also about milling about smartly.
What are you saying this series aired?
I want to say in the 90s.
Marshall law.
Marshall law.
Thank you.
I knew I didn't dream that.
I knew I didn't dream that.
All right.
We have just another guest joining us.
Tell everybody who you are.
Talk right into that microphone.
Please.
Hi.
I'm Kayla.
I have a short film here in Asian Film Festival of Dallas showing called The Home Is Where
The Sun Sets.
Has it showed yet or did it already show?
Sorry.
Has it already shown or is it going to show?
No.
It's going to be tomorrow at one o'clock.
Tomorrow at one o'clock.
Home is where the sun sets tell us about it.
So it's a short film.
How short?
It's eight minutes.
Okay.
Yeah.
It's actually an autobiographical film based on my true story.
When last year, when my whole family came to visit me for the first time from Hong Kong
in LA.
Oh wow.
Yeah.
And for my college graduation.
So it was about like my excitement of them coming and the cultural conflicts I ended up
experiencing when they were around.
Let's talk about that for a minute because I don't know that we talk about cultural differences
enough, especially when we do festivals like this.
Going into it because again, this is what happened to you.
Yeah.
When you're looking back on that time and I don't want to give anything away in the film,
so stop me if I'm spoiling anything.
Was it something that you even thought about as that event was coming up or did it just,
were you expecting it?
The film?
Just the way it all unfolded.
The conflicts you were talking about.
Yes, ma'am.
No, actually not at all because it was, I have three older sisters and it was like for two of them,
it was their first time coming to America.
So for them, it was like, I've been living here for like ten years.
It was like a time for me to finally show them my world in a way.
Like my friends, like people I hang out with in the environment.
So I was just excited.
I didn't know that like, there was so much cultural conflicts that have kind of grown throughout the years
that I didn't realize and when they were here, it was like a finally a time for me to come find it.
So, and that made you think you know what I need to make this into a film?
Well, I wasn't going to make it into a film.
It was more like something that kind of made me uncomfortable and as a filmmaker when something,
like when there's a conflict internally, like I want to make it into a film.
Was that therapeutic for you or are you still kind of sitting with it now where you were before?
Yeah, for sure it is.
Actually, most of my family, they still haven't seen the film.
Oh, wow.
It was almost like a little secret.
Yeah.
How long did it take you to shoot it?
Just two days.
Oh, awesome.
Yeah, pre-production was way longer but actual shoot time was just two days.
Now, right now it's in eight minutes.
This took a lot longer than eight minutes to unfold as you lived it.
Yeah.
Do you want to stretch this to a longer narrative?
Do you see this as something that you could make into a full feature?
Or are you kind of okay with the short where it is?
If I have a chance, I would love to.
Yeah, I think there's a lot more I could tell with the story.
Definitely like it could definitely be longer than eight minutes.
How many times have you shown the film before tomorrow?
This is the 10th festival.
Oh, wow.
Congratulations.
Do you still have the same butterflies you had the first time or is it a little bit less nervy now?
Because you're kind of a veteran now, let's be honest.
I mean, I do because I only got to go to the premiere.
I was in Hong Kong for a half a year.
Oh, wow.
That's all I got into.
I was able to attend.
So this is like the second time.
So I'm really excited to meet the audiences and see how they react and how they feel about it.
So I'm assuming there will be Q&A tomorrow night?
Yeah, I think so.
Have you been able to do the only other time that you've been able to show it?
Did you have a chance to do a Q&A?
I did, yeah.
Was there a question that you got asked that you weren't prepared for?
I don't think I was prepared for any of them, but it always went okay because it's more like...
The questions they asked about the film, it was like asking about my own experience
because everything that happened in a film happened in real life.
So it was just kind of just like talking about my family and stuff like that.
From a filmmaker standpoint, because you're not using your actual family members,
this is more of a reenactment,
yeah.
Is that more nerve-wracking given that it's your story than it would have been
if it was just a narrative that you had just written fictionally that was completely not related to you?
No, it was actually a lot easier because when I was directing the actors,
and when I was struggling, I would just think about how my family would act.
Like, what would my dad say in that scenario?
Yeah, so it actually made it a lot easier.
Okay, cool.
Where's the film going from here?
I don't know yet, there's no screening after this,
but I hope there's going to be more.
I hope to show it hopefully internationally as well.
Do you know where within the block your film sits?
It's with the woman's...
But like inside of it, is it like it's closer to the beginning,
closer to the end, is it right in the middle?
What do you mean?
Like, where within the block it's going to be shown?
With the other shorts.
Right, so is it like at the beginning of the block,
is it at the end of the block, is it somewhere in the middle?
Do you know?
Yeah, I'm not sure about that.
Okay, so it's just going to happen.
Oh, there's my film.
Yeah, but it's going to be one o'clock tomorrow.
Okay, one o'clock here at the Angelica.
Yeah.
Before we let you go enjoy the evening,
we want to make sure because we're all about shameless self-promotion.
So talk about people where people can go website, social media,
anywhere that they can connect to you in this film.
I actually don't have a Facebook page for the film,
but I do have a Facebook page for the work that I do.
And if you just look at Kayla Tong productions on it.
Oh, NG.
Yeah, Kayla, T-O-N-G productions on Facebook.
And you see all the updates, the work I do in the future.
Any websites or Instagram, Twitter, anything that you want to plug?
Yes, my website is Kayla Tong.com.
Okay.
Yeah, so feel free to check it out.
All right, the name of the short is,
home is where the sun sets.
It plays tomorrow, one o'clock right here at the Angelica.
Because tomorrow is their salute.
It's all women's films all day tomorrow,
which I think is really cool.
So Kayla, thank you so much for sitting down with this.
Go enjoy your evening.
Thank you.
And we're looking forward to hearing some of the feedback.
Yes, thank you for having me.
All right, thank you for being here.
This is the Clubhouse podcast.
We're live at the Asian Film Festival of Dallas.
This is the 16th, one of these things.
And our second.
So we've got one-eighth of them covered.
You hear the public school math?
What a huge chunk that is.
You're saying you have some catch up, right?
We do have some room to catch up, yes.
You were talking about movies coming out.
Have you discussed DVDs that came out recently?
We have the list here coming up this, not recently.
I just had this coming week.
Okay, because my fast and furious eight arrived.
Oh, fate of the furious?
Yes.
I haven't gotten to watch it yet because people keep me busy,
but maybe I'll get to do that tomorrow since I won't be on the air.
That's right.
We're taking time off.
We're taking time off.
We're running out of stuff to race against each other.
And they've got two more of their contracted to do so.
It's car races and Vin Diesel, so I'm not a person.
And the rock kicking torpedoes.
And the rock.
So pretty soon we're going to be at horses and cocaine.
That would be amazing.
That might be a highlight of my life for longs
at a time swear.
This thing looks like die another day.
I'm sorry.
More car movies.
I like my car chase movies.
I'm me.
So TV on DVD and Blu-ray this week.
Season two of the Expans, which I've heard good things about.
Season four of the 100.
Now, get a load of this.
Season six.
Part one of Teen Wolf.
That show has been on for six years.
Desert Diculous.
I was like, that's been that long.
Yeah, but when you're on a network like that,
you can partially pause because your stars have run off
and gotten real jobs with other stuff.
And the complete series of TJ Hooker.
This week on DVD and Blu-ray.
If you met with that.
Was that Heather Locklear?
Yeah, that was I was going to say.
That's Heather Locklear and.
Lee Mjettner.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
Let's say Lee Major.
My two pay is in its prime during that June.
All right.
One of our favorite people has joined us.
Sir, tell everybody who you are.
Hey, I'm Thomas Schubert.
And I work with the Asian Film Festival.
I mean, it's a little bit more laid back
than the last time we saw him.
Yeah.
If you listen to our show from the real Owl Film Festival
just a few months ago, this is the Schubert
that everyone would only refer to by last name and not title.
Schubert told us, Schubert said we had to do this.
I was like, you know what?
I remember those days.
Yes.
It was a lot of fun.
I'm glad you guys liked it.
It was a lot of fun.
Kids work real hard for that.
And they were awesome.
The kids were just amazing to talk to.
And they were just, the energy was just buzzing.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
They will easily forego other Film Festivals just for that one.
Like, guys, you know, you should really prepare your film
for South by like, well, but when's the deadline for our Film Festival?
Like, are you kidding me?
Okay.
So this is day three of the festival.
Yeah.
How are things going?
It's going pretty good.
You know, ops is usually pretty smooth.
Mostly because the people working on it are old hat.
We've been doing it for a pretty long time.
Sean, Dave and I have been doing it for a pretty long time.
Every once in a while, there's logistical hiccups here and there
where we're kind of in the handoff of different things.
Handoff from year to year every once in a while.
There's some kind of hiccup.
Sometimes there's hiccups just generally.
But we keep it in, we keep a pretty tight ship, to be honest.
And the Angelica puts on a great event.
They're really great to work with.
I love working with Adam and all those guys.
Yeah.
Do you get to watch all the films in advance?
I could if I wanted to.
But I'm kind of a snob when it comes to the visuals on a film.
And usually the screeners.
I'm not actually a lot of companies have been getting real good with their screeners
where they'll send nice HD, Vemio links and no modern marks or anything like that.
That's really nice.
But if they're not doing that, I just, I can't do the
the sub DVD.
Can we say some of the people with Vemio that are listening right now?
If you're at Vemio, I want to kiss you.
Well, here's my thing.
Here's my issue with Vemio.
I love that you people can put their movies out through Vemio.
But if I just put the serial number that I get sent in into my Vemio app on my Roku,
let me do that.
Oh, then I'll let you.
I don't do Roku, so I don't know about that.
Because I want to be able to watch it on my home theater through the HDMI.
I have to worry about my laptop.
And I type it in and it's like, that doesn't exist.
Then I have to plug my laptop into my receiver.
And then I have to watch it.
It's just not the best presentation.
So link that number.
So I have to put the password and everything.
Because I want to be able, like you said, I want to look at it in the best presentation that I can get.
And I have a 70-inch television and 7.1 surround for a reason.
I want to be able to use it.
That's my field.
That's my field for a lot of the screeners we get.
I would love to watch these in advance.
But if it's not going to be beautiful on my 65-inch OLED,
I'm out.
Why would I bother?
I want to be able to turn out the lights, crank it up so the neighbors down the street can wet the bed.
Right.
We had a flood at my house last year and I had to take all my stuff down.
I'm just now putting it all back together.
And so I finally put Deadpool in the other day, just kind of run it through its paces.
And I was like, this is what this is supposed to sound like.
Because I've just been using the audio out of my TV for six months.
No more.
Yeah, I've just got stereo JBLs.
These old stereo JBLs from, they're like 13-inch woofers from 1976 or something.
And they still probably will.
Oh, they're great.
Because it's all about the receiver you push through.
Oh, yeah, they're great.
I got a nice Yamaha.
It's good stuff.
Yeah, I have the Sony, the first Sony that was THX, DTS, qualified.
Now, you heard the THX announcement from a few weeks ago.
They are partnering with Cinemark.
They're going to start THX certifying all these Cinemark XD auditorium.
Interesting.
Which is the first time we've heard their name since the United Artists days.
Yeah.
When all of the galaxy, every theater they had was THX certifying.
Yeah.
I'm very excited about that.
What's the one?
Is there a single film in the festival that you're looking forward to more than the others?
I'm sure you, I mean, if you've been talking to people, I'm sure you've heard already.
I'm looking really looking forward to villainous.
We haven't heard that.
At the end of the season or at the end of the festival, you know, honestly, I've seen some stills,
and you know, as soon as I saw some stills, like, is that Korean?
Because it looks Korean.
It's like, oh, it is great.
I'm in.
Tell everybody about the film that may not have an idea.
I try not to do the, I try not to do the, the, the, the pre stuff.
It looks good.
It's got a pre interesting premise.
What is the premise?
I don't know.
I didn't like it.
You caught me.
I didn't like it.
What is the closing night, it's a closing night film.
It's called badass.
People say it looks awesome.
Our program was like, it's amazing.
You know, we chose it as our closing night.
I'm like, that's all I need to hear.
There you go.
Sounds great.
It looks great.
We were talking the other day about when we were at the high school.
And how all the kids were buzzing about baby driver.
Even though, man.
Yeah.
It's, they works.
It had just been, it's south by a couple of, like, a month or two prior.
That's what I saw.
That's what I saw.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think I just saw it a couple weeks ago.
It was, I mean, I know I left that theater just like with my head in my hands.
Like, what?
I don't smoke and I needed a cigarette.
That was so far.
That was so good.
And did you watch the, did you watch the music video that kind of gave him the idea?
No, I read about it.
I'd never heard about that until Rob talked to me.
I read about it on MTV.
Yeah.
And a guy that I've worked with, Mike Realm, who is a DJ out in California.
He actually did a remix of the trailer.
Oh, cool.
That I haven't seen but I need to because we worked with him over New Year's weekend.
He's an amazing DJ and he does mix video in his sets.
So I need to check out his remix of the trailer.
What else do you want to plug while you're here, man?
You know, we got got a war playing in about an hour.
Yep.
And about an hour.
I just heard a story where my kung fu master, master Johnny Lee.
He is his birthday today and he really wanted to see this movie.
Happy birthday, master Johnny.
And he couldn't come because someone had scheduled a birthday party.
Well, people got to understand what priorities are.
You know, I respect that.
But he really likes the story, the historical guy that this story is about,
the God of War stories about.
I need to find out who that is because I've looked at some of that stuff up.
I'm just so we're clear this is not based on the video.
Right.
It's nothing like the video game.
Though there will probably be dead people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, who is it?
Daniels.
Johnny, you found it.
Yeah, because if you do the search on IMDB, the video game comes up first.
Commander you.
James foul shared out on Facebook this morning, the God of War trailer.
And that was.
Friends of the show.
Oh, I saw.
Oh, see, that's a good reason.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, sure.
Cool.
I have to look that up.
It is, it is definitely worth worth.
It's general, general cheat.
It looks like.
That looks great.
Yeah, I'm, I'm just really excited about it.
We don't get a, we don't get a whole lot of time to take a look at the stuff.
And I try and avoid it for a lot of different reasons.
I usually have a couple.
Like, I'm excited about God of War.
I'm excited about villainous.
And just kind of go with that.
You know, when people really start asking questions, I'm like, you know, we've got a list in our program guide.
With a checklist.
Which is awesome.
Which, I pointed out I love the check boxes.
Oh, yeah.
That is the greatest thing.
We're very, we have a new, we have a new creative director, Shelley Ly.
She's been doing a great job for us.
And that, that program guide is, is looking pretty.
That's one of the nicer ones that we've seen in a while.
I mean, it's, it's, we, well laid out.
You know, we've, we've considered going smaller, like, open right up to the shin Godzilla.
Right.
Right.
We've, we've considered going a little smaller, like a lot of the other festivals recent, in recent years.
But, you know, we, we really take a lot of pride in that, in that, in that thing.
It takes, that takes four or five people, you know, we've got to look over it, put all the movies in there.
You know, like, I'm sure people have mentioned.
You got to look over it, look over it, look over it, look over it, look over it.
Five or six times, seriously.
Somebody else is looking over what you're looking over while you're looking over it.
Absolutely.
And there's still going to be errors.
Like, we're still going to make mistakes.
Even after four or five people looking at it over it.
But it's, it takes an incredible amount of time to, to accomplish what we even got there.
They always give us great stills.
We always get some really great stills from, from these companies.
So, how much longer before you have to start pulling the train out of the station
for the kids to come in for the high school?
Man, like a, I don't know.
We have like two days after this.
I try not to think about it.
I try not to think about it.
I don't know.
Sometime in August.
Like August 16th.
Maybe.
Sounds about right.
Sounds about right.
I think we might be going back to school on my birthday 28th again.
That happens.
Like, I was just so, I understand what y'all are talking about.
Because we're, we're obviously not discussing child slavery here.
No, no, no.
That's all.
Garland High School has its own film department.
And every year in May.
They actually have a film festival of the best of the students' films.
And Chad and Don and myself this year were asked to be industry judges.
Oh, that's almost Kelly Kitchens and her husband.
So, we judge the films.
And there's audience awards that the kids give of, of their favorite films.
And then we get to rate the films as well.
We got to give some pointers in our ballots.
And we had a great time.
Um, they, they've asked us back next year.
Which is obviously the kids love talking to you guys.
And we did a live show.
Yeah.
Because they do.
They show the films and then they have a reception.
And then they go back for the awards.
We podcasted in the interim.
And had a bunch of the kids on in the capture.
We had so much fun.
And these kids are so unbelievably talented.
That is awesome.
That.
And Garland High School.
They were also, the school itself was also featured in the Dallas International Film Festival this year.
Yeah.
There's a movie called Step that's coming out from Fox Search Light.
About a high school in Baltimore that has all girls in the house.
Oh, I see what you're talking about.
And the step team from Garland High School came out and did a demonstration before the screening I was at.
Yeah.
I will say, first of all, when this movie, I'm not allowed to send my review out yet because Fox Search Light has the rights to it.
It comes out next month when it does rush to the theater theater and see this film.
It is a documentary that will find every possible emotional string you have.
And pull on it with the force of a cruise ship leaving the dock is amazing.
It's really enjoyable.
Yeah.
It's really, really good.
And they had a screening last month I didn't get to go to as it was in the middle of the day.
But the girls from the school were here.
Oh, cool.
Doing a Q&A after the film.
Right.
And it's really, really good.
And again, Garland High School featured in that.
But we had so much fun.
We were before we had the step team coming to we weren't featured in the film itself.
Right.
I just, you know, I was like, we've got a national award winning step team.
Do you want us to come and talk to you guys?
Do you want us to come and do a thing?
And they came and did a thing.
And then after the film, they actually kind of stuck around and they talked to some of the people.
Oh, did they cool?
Yeah.
They were there for probably another 20, 30 minutes after the screening light out.
I was running it back and forth between here and the Mac.
Only at that day because I like five films to see.
But those kind of conglomerations, I think, are really what make the screenings that we have here in Dallas.
Especially.
You're absolutely right.
The tie-ins with the local community and the local.
And then seeing that reciprocating, you know, we were here for the USA Film Festival.
And your mom was just sitting right there and she's like, hey, we've got this thing.
You guys want to do it.
And it was like, well, sure.
We can come and do that.
And had the best time.
And we're looking forward again next year.
And hopefully the air conditioning will work.
Hopefully.
It was a little warm in the cafeteria.
Well, she made more cookies.
That's all I really wanted.
And she don't be careful now.
She made way too many cookies.
And we had bags and bags.
I burned through that bag.
She gave me like two.
Oh, you're a thin guy, man.
We've all had our share of cookies on the other side of these cookies.
I can't have the sugar.
She brought some.
You can go ask her something.
Stop it, seriously.
She brought a couple today.
I can go ask her something.
I will know what Chad's doing after the show.
All right.
So plugs for everything right now.
Asian Film.
Is it Asian Film Dallas.com?
Asian Film.
Wait.
Asian Film Dallas.com.
AFFD.
Okay. Asian Film Dallas.com.
Yeah.
Go there and check it out.
Because there's still time for you to get tickets.
Oh, yeah.
Any of the screens between now and next Thursday.
They've got different packages and different levels.
Mm-hmm.
So that, you know, if you want to come every night at the festival and save yourself some money and get the full festival pass.
Or you can get them here.
Come upstairs to the Angelica.
Jen, what's up?
There is a package that you have to pre-purchase a year in advance.
So if you're interested in having the ultimate pass for next year, 2018.
Please make sure to come on.
And it's not quite the ultimate.
It basically is a normal badge that gets you into all the movies.
But it's only $88.
But that's all it does.
Now, if you really want to get the invites to the parties and you want to get the t-shirt and you want to get the bag and all the other stuff,
that's at the producer level membership.
So yeah.
Go check it out and get your, if you're nothing else, if you can't make it this year, get your passes for next year so they don't sell out.
Yeah, if they do sell out when we hit 88.
We don't sell any more than 88.
Sorry, it's always an honor to have you.
Absolutely.
I'm going to see you guys.
All right. Thank you very much.
You're listening to the Clubhouse Podcast.
We're live at the Angelica Film Center.
In Dallas at Mockingbird Station, covering the Asian Film Festival of Dallas, the 16th, one of these things.
Going strong.
We're going to be here for about another 35 or 40 minutes or so.
Don is shaking his head.
Oh, this is our last guest.
All right, for enough.
Go ahead, talk right into thing and tell everybody who you are.
Hello, I'm Jeff Chivas-Terns.
I'm a director from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
And I directed the film and produced the film Mixed Match that's playing at the festival this year.
The centerpiece film.
No, it's playing tomorrow at 12 o'clock, which I guess would be Sunday.
Okay, fair enough.
Yeah.
Your arrival was heralded already by Teresa when she was sitting down with us.
So tomorrow at noon, here at the Angelica, tell our audience about the film.
Sure.
So the film is a documentary.
It looks at the complexities and challenges that multi-racial and some minority groups face when trying to find bone marrow donors.
If they have leukemia or like a rare disease.
Wow.
And so what it ends up happening is when you need to find a bone marrow transplant, you need to find someone who has similar genetics.
And so you need to find a genetic twin.
So when you're mixed and you're blended, your genetics get a little more complex.
And so when you're trying to match someone, the odds are just a little bit more stacked against you.
And also just that there's not as many mixed race and minority people on bone marrow registries around the world.
What brought you to this?
Well, I'm half Japanese.
I'm mixed myself.
And you know, it was brought to me by another woman in L.A.
Her name is Athena Sklepyata.
She runs a group called mixed marrow.
And her outreach is to actually recruit more mixed people to the registry.
And in 2007, I was asked to join the registry in Canada because there was a young gentleman who was mixed to have Chinese.
And someone said, oh, hey, you could be as match maybe.
And I said, I have no idea what you're talking about.
All right.
Like, oh, why is it matter if I mixed and he's mixed and all this stuff?
So I kind of ignored it and just sort of didn't really think too much about it.
And then three years later, Athena got ahold of me because I'm a filmmaker.
I make films about multiracial identity.
And she asked me if I knew about this topic.
And if it might kind of make for a good sort of, like a topic for a documentary.
And the more I researched it, the more I realized it was like finding a needle in a haystack for a lot of people
if they have leukemia in their mix.
And what was behind this?
So I went on this six-year journey.
We started in 2010, finished up in 2016.
And basically just explored this topic.
Wow.
How long did it take you to film it?
Yeah.
Filming was off and on because we had many subjects we were working with.
As you do with the documentary.
Yeah, of course.
We were hoping to finish in 2013.
But obviously with the subjects we were working with, it takes time.
Because they're going through a process.
They're trying to find donors.
They're trying to find a match.
They have a very critical disease they're trying to deal with.
And so we just wanted to make sure we left the documentary time to breed.
And so yeah, by the time we started editing in 2015, it took me a year to sit through 200 hours of footage.
But you know, it got done.
And now this will be probably around a 30th film festival.
Wow.
But it is the Dallas premiere.
It is the Dallas premiere.
It is the Dallas premiere, yes.
We're excited.
I've never been here before.
Welcome to our fineberg.
And what better time to visit here than mid-July?
Exactly.
For your first experience.
Especially a guy from Canada.
Yeah.
I don't feel so bad eating on the barbecue because I'm burning it off for a long while.
It's like, I walked to my car and I've already burned all of this off because there's 9 billion degrees outside.
So you've gotten to sample the local wares.
Anything that stood out for you since you've been here?
Well, hey, everyone say I go to the pecan.
The pecan lodge.
Well, brother.
So hey, we stood in line.
We did it.
And I pretty much have had meat sweats for the last two days.
As you should.
It's okay.
I've always said I moved here in 95 and the food is part of the reason I live here.
But I did gain an Olsen twin living here.
Yeah.
I'm going to go back home at least 6, 7 pounds heavier.
I'm okay with that, though.
How has the response been so far in the other film festivals that you've done?
Has it been what you expected?
Has it exceeded your expectations?
Yeah, you know what?
It definitely has.
You know, what's really great at each festival, we actually have a bone marrow drive after the film is finished.
Oh, wow.
So people who are in the audience can take that call to action and actually join the registry.
They are already on the registry.
So I think the response we've had is hundreds of people have signed up at our screenings.
And actually one person in Seattle we found out got called in to possibly be a donor.
So that meant that, you know, what I always said, if we could save one life with this film,
all six years have been worth it, you know.
And so that for us has been extra special.
Have you had a chance to look into some partnerships with bone marrow donor organizations?
I'm assuming Canada would have a different organization than they maybe they would have here in the States.
Sure.
Yeah, right now we've been focusing a lot just on North America because obviously the world is a big place.
But there's be the match down here in America.
And we've got one match up in Canada, which is one of the Canadian blood services.
So both organizations have been very supportive of our film and actually have helped us organize these bone marrow drives that you screening.
And we're hoping to create more educational screenings at universities because that is the target demographic these sort of high or college kids.
Are you at the point now when you see the film that you can breathe a little bit and go,
okay, are you still watching the film and going, oh, I wanted to do that and I should have done that.
But I did that, okay, are you still picking at it or are you at a point with it now that you can sit through it as a spectator?
Yeah, you know, I've been making films since 2000. It's almost 20 years now.
And it's hard sometimes to go back and watch your old films because obviously you grow as an artist, you grow as a creator.
And there's things you will always want to do differently every time you watch your movie.
But you know, you come to the realization that this is the movie you made at that particular moment in time.
For us, for me, editing, it just became the film it needed to be.
Yeah, I think it's still hard for me because I've seen the film 500 times to sit in a theater and actually watch it with an audience.
And it's a heavier subject matter, right?
You know, so I think for me what's kind of exciting is that the birth of my daughter is at the end of the movie.
And if you watch the movie understand why that happens.
So that's where I kind of sneak in the last couple of minutes of the movie just to sort of watch that moment.
What's the craziest question you've gotten at in a Q&A?
Well, there's a lot of times people just want to know there's race involved in this, right?
You know, and I think that's always sometimes a bit of a slippery slope or a little controversial.
When you're looking at any kind of issue of race and medicine and the way we kind of label people and the way we're identifying people, especially when it comes to these medical, you know,
because you're trying to find a fewer Mexican, you need to find another Mexican to find a bit of a match or an African-American, find another African-American.
And sometimes people don't like the idea of us sort of like using, not us in particular, but these groups using particular sort of terminology to describe people.
So sometimes it could be a little bit of a heated discussion around that aspect, maybe the more academic sort of looking at that sort of topic, I guess, in that sense.
But for the most part, you know what we know what it is.
You know what I mean? Like genetically we've got to find a DNA twin.
And usually that comes from someone with the same ancestry.
So usually those are kind of some of those questions.
When you talk about stuff like that, it just made me think of this.
Do things like ancestry.com, those kinds of DNA in a box?
Do you think that helps this or does it work against it?
I think, you know what, I think for some people, it's eye-opening, right?
You realize, oh wow, I'm 14% that original or something, right?
They didn't realize that before.
And so that just sort of opens up that sort of idea that we're all kind of mixed, right?
You know, like we don't want just, you know, mixed people to see the film.
We want everyone to see the film because everyone essentially could be a little mixed.
You never know. You never know what happened back, you know, four or five generations ago.
And so sometimes those things like ancestry.com are kind of fun because you're like, wow, look at me.
I realize I'm a little bit of this.
And so that makes you kind of mixed.
Does it help the donor programs to know that or do they figure it out once they get the information?
Yeah, once you sign up, you do a little cheek swab.
What's really great about signing up is there's no blood involved, right?
You just basically do a little cheek swab, fill out a form, boom, you're on the registry.
And chances are you'll never get called.
But if you do, you know, nowadays it's as easy as giving blood.
You don't have to have an operation anymore.
And that's what scares people.
So I think that's sort of, you know, comforting to people to know that they can save a life.
And it really is a little discomfort for them.
But, you know, essentially the bone marrow registry is actually when you do the cheek swab,
they actually test your DNA.
They create what's called an HLA, which is human leukocyte antigen.
It's like a code.
Basically your parents give it to you and that's what you're trying to match.
So they're looking more at this code as opposed to sort of geographically where you're from.
But knowing where you are from helps them know where to look.
After tomorrow, where does the film go from here?
We're going to be actually screening in Portland on July 19th.
So Dallas, to Portland.
Should be a problem.
No.
No.
I fly back to England.
That's far to go back home.
Yeah.
I got to go back up to Vancouver.
We'll drive down to Portland.
We've got the screening in the Northwest Film Center at 7 o'clock.
Then we head over to New York.
We're going to screen.
Actually, our New York premiere will be at the Asian American International Film Festival.
That will be on July 29th.
And then we're kind of focusing on just hitting that sort of college and university circuit in the fall.
Any distribution rights that we can talk about?
Or is that still in the talks that you can't talk about?
Yeah.
That's always a tricky thing.
We've been approached by a few distributors now.
And we're sort of just sort of weighing our options.
But at the same time, I'm pretty focused on kind of the idea of self-distribution as well, too.
Because I think that gives us the ability to do what we want to do with the film.
And a lot of times distributors can tie your hands behind your back and say,
well, we're going to do this.
And once you sign those rights away, you can't get them back.
So, you know, this is a film, a labor of love, a passion project, took us six years to make.
We want to make sure that it's getting distributed properly.
It's seeing the right audiences.
And we like the idea of focusing on community screenings.
We're like, you know, screenings at festivals because we have the ability to have a bone marrow drive afterwards
and give people to sign up.
You know, so we're singing home watching Netflix.
It's going to see it and be like, oh, that was a nice little film.
That was a thing.
Yeah.
And walk away.
So at least this gives people a chance to have that called action.
All right.
So I know you've got hands to shake, babies to kiss, all that good stuff.
We want to make sure because we've based this show on shameless self-promotion.
Sure.
So tell everybody that's listening right now and we'll be downloading on their podcast apps later.
Where can they get in touch with the film, any kind of social media websites,
any other organizations that you want them to check out that tie into the film?
For sure.
So we actually have a web, kind of a web platform we put together, a web portal.
It's called www.mixedmatchproject.com.
There you can go and watch other stories that we captured.
Like I said, we had 200 hours of footage.
We had to put it somewhere.
A lot of those stories made onto the website.
You can watch the film trailers, check out the subjects, a lot of stories.
You can actually find out where your registry is in the country that you live in.
So it's a really great resource.
Also, social media, really big.
We've got Instagram and we've got Twitter.
Our handle there is Mixed Match.
Movie.
And Facebook, just find a center mixed match.
Follow us.
We're always Twittering and posting and sending out pictures.
And letting people know where we're going to be next.
Mixed Mero, which is that organization that we focus on in the film.
They're MixedMero.org.
Check them out too.
So really it's yeah, follow us on social media.
We've got like this cute little stem cell character that we carry around at every single screening.
That we, that was in Dallas.
We take it in front of all like the landmarks and stuff.
Kind of like a flat stand like kind of a thing.
Here is the front of reunion tower.
Yeah.
So that little guy has been with us around pretty much around North America.
So tomorrow here at the Angelica at noon.
That's correct.
Yeah.
Obviously going to be a Q&A after it because you're going to want to talk to people and they're going to want to talk to you.
It's called MixedMatch.
It's right here at the Asian Film Festival of Dallas.
Tomorrow, 12 o'clock at the Angelica in Mockingbird station.
Mr. Sterns, thank you so much for hanging out.
Hey, thanks for having me on.
I'll go enjoy the evening.
Thank you.
It is called MixedMatch.
Make sure you come check it out and go into their social media.
Because Bo Mero is, I mean, you want to know.
You want to, if you can save a life beyond yourself.
There's a world beyond the end of your own nose.
Absolutely.
And, you know, if we're not helping each other, I ain't nobody going to help you.
I know this.
I was happy to hear when he talked about the cheek swab.
Because all I could think is, I don't want a medical procedure done in a movie theater.
Yeah.
I've been in movies.
But no, I think that's great that they're doing the drives afterwards.
And, you know, it is strange when you have to find a very close genetic match in things like that.
It can be a needle in a haystack.
Yeah.
And you don't want to be the person that has to need that and know that there's somebody out there
that could have saved your life and they didn't have it checked out.
Yeah.
You know, that's why, you know, be an organ donor.
Things like that.
Well, like you said, you may have a lot.
I mean, anyone like myself who grew up in Texas was born in Texas.
Most all of us, uh, native Texans are total Hines 57.
Yeah, we're all mixed kids.
We're all mixed.
We're much like crazy.
A little bit of American Indian blood, a little bit of a typically Tennessee or some, you know,
Scottish or some Irish or African American.
I've always been interested in the ancestry.com thing.
It's, man, it's a little steep.
I'm more worried about the NSA.
Oh, God.
But they did it.
Everybody on Bob and Tom did it.
They did it all one day and they got their kids back and they found out some really interesting things about their background.
So, Don, how you doing, brother?
Lovely.
Eight days.
I know.
Eight days.
Didn't hitched.
Is there an app for that counter?
I bet you could make one.
What?
I count down clock that you could put on your face.
What's it, Don?
No.
Hey, we're Facebook and live.
It's the Don's Day clock.
And so that's going to be a next Sunday.
What time?
5.30.
And let me tell you how much we love this man.
We're going to be at his wedding.
We're going to forgo a pay-per-view for Don's wedding.
Yeah.
This is true.
We are going to do our pre show next Saturday.
Okay.
So we can get all the predictions.
I know you're going to be running around like a chicken with this head cut off.
But you'll make the thing later that night.
Yeah, I know.
We're going to do it early in the day.
Okay.
So if you want to send me your picks and your grade for the pay-per-view.
All right.
Because, you know, we got to keep the streak alive.
Yeah, exactly.
So we're going to record that on Saturday.
We won't do it live on you stream, but we will record it and release it to you.
Okay.
The podcast stuff on Saturday.
All right.
So because that's going to be WWE Battleground.
I still haven't watched Raw on SmackDown yet.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm like halfway through Raw.
That's all I got right now.
Yeah.
Apparently.
Is it true that they canceled talking Smack?
I don't know.
Because Renee Young made some kind of a weird comment on Twitter yesterday.
No, she doesn't have to listen on Twitter.
She could do it somehow.
She said something about going to miss talking Smack.
Had a lot of fun.
No, I'm just going to go back to introducing you to my guest at this time.
Well.
So maybe they replaced her.
You know, I was down in San Antonio that night for SmackDown.
I almost went to that thing.
That should have been awesome.
You've got a live review for God.
No.
You have the spoiler.
Well, no.
All right.
So are we wrapping up?
Yeah.
Just, yeah, next week I want to thank you guys for doing this thing.
Dude, it is our honor to be there for your big day.
And thank you for asking me to officiate.
Yeah.
We're doing it.
You know.
I'm very, very excited about this.
I can't wait.
Are we fully dressed enough for this thing?
What do you mean?
Am I in full suit for this?
Yeah, suit.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
I will wear the...
There's the real love.
Now, now, she...
And if you lie out...
And if you lie out...
And if you lie out...
And if you lie out...
And if you lie out...
But...
So after the photo...
Doc Strange is going to do the photography.
Friend of the show?
Yeah.
Love the guy.
Also the...
The bride after the thing in the park.
We're going to...
That would be your wife?
The bride.
My...
Faith.
The bride.
The chick that's going to be there.
The bride.
By then, she will be the wife.
Yeah.
She will be Faith Ford.
Faith Ford.
Fantastic.
Faith Ford.
Ball and Chang.
Fantastic.
Faith Ford.
We love Faith.
We're big fans for her.
But the...
So she's going to change into a dress for the dinner after.
Oh, and we're set on that.
The menu is already set.
Oh.
You saw the email.
I didn't look at the full email because I know that word.
I know that word.
I just need to know where to be and when to be there.
That's my whole thing.
10th course meal at Marciano.
Basically.
I may need to take PTO on Monday just to recover.
10th courses?
Yeah.
10th courses.
And I have my dress picked out.
I just have to verify my shoes because I'm a girl.
Okay.
Fair enough.
But yeah.
And then...
We will be Facebook-living it.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Yellow movie nerds.
So the 10th course is...
The 10th course must be...
It's a thin wafer thing.
It's a wafer thing.
It's a wafer thing.
I've never done Marciano's before.
They're family-style dinner.
I've never been to Marciano's.
Oh.
My wife has been a ton of times.
I have never been.
So I'm very much looking forward to this.
And we're having chewy the night before.
It's a big food weekend.
Well, that's just the family.
You're the only non-family member coming to this stuff.
I appreciate that.
Because you're the officiant.
I am the officiant.
Because it's...
Family meeting to gather and stuff.
But yeah.
Marciano's...
We picked out the 10th courses.
We get to meet Don's family.
And you're going to meet...
And you'll see fantastic.
They forward.
And she's...
Are they going to bring your Vior to play?
Vior?
Vior?
But no.
No, how they do it is they bring...
They should call her the old last soon.
We have the mini picked out.
But they bring it out.
The family style.
Yeah.
I've heard that.
Another concept.
I've just never been there.
But you'll...
We start off with four courses up front.
I got the menus are real lexicon there.
Yeah.
The Marciano's D's salad.
We have the Caesar salad.
We got the calmar.
We got the...
The...
Sorry.
Oh, so why?
That's the one I said we're having.
Then we have the...
Let's see...
There's maybe a little too highfalutin for me.
But then hold on.
The mushrooms as the other appetizer.
Then we're going to have the...
Don.
Don.
You haven't eaten dinner yet.
And we're going to go watch a movie.
Okay.
Be careful with the food dog.
Oh, the pasta.
The pasta stuck with pretty much just hot dogs.
And pasta weren't at the moment.
But...
Yeah.
Is there going to be chocolate?
Yes.
We will get to that.
Because we're going to have the...
We're going to have the lasagna for the pasta.
Plus the other...
The another pasta too.
So we get the pasta.
The...
Then we're going to have...
He's against pasta.
We have the salmon.
And we have the chicken.
Chicken.
Chicken paccata.
And the salmon.
Plus the lasagna.
And then for dessert...
A lot of eyes in this course.
No, I can't do dessert.
Well, the cheesecake.
You know, real low sugar.
And then the other cheesecake.
And then the other dessert is their moose...
Sixth layer moose chocolate cake.
Wow.
You realize this leads up to your wedding night, right?
You're going to be like,
Honey, I have to get some sleep right now.
It's just...
It's his wedding.
They'll never eat.
You literally do.
That's a fair point.
On your wedding, you need to pack a little plate...
At our side.
No, at ours, we had a young lady that was assigned
to make sure Jen got her food.
Yeah.
That was the whole thing.
It was her job to make sure my wife was taken care of on that day.
Because again, I'm going to tell you right now,
Don, as a guy that's been married a long time,
you will remember none of this.
So make sure that Facebook Live is good.
Make sure, John, it's plenty of good pictures.
Right.
But I'm just saying, you're not going to remember much of it
because you're going to be buzzing so much
that by the time it's over, you're going to be like,
are we going to get married?
Oh, no, we already did.
Okay, fair enough.
I want to say something real.
I'm working the room.
Five, four, four, eight, one, two, two, five, one.
That's our registration number.
Bed, bed, bed.
It's like, is he giving people a cell number?
The hell is going on here?
Yeah.
That's your boy.
That's your boy, it's all the same thing.
I know, that's 20 million.
And yes, talking smack was cancer.
Okay, so we do want to remind everyone
that we are at the Asian Film Festival of Dallas.
Come check this out.
It goes through next Thursday.
And I want to say we may have another festival coming up
next month that you need to line up, sir.
With Justina.
We'll talk.
Yeah.
Make sure that we get the text and sign up.
Yes.
See if they need us or not.
Okay.
And then also next month, we have Bart's got a festival
coming up next month.
One of my favorite things.
It's an entire weekend of nothing but cat videos.
Oh, God.
I love it.
I love it.
I love it.
I love it.
I love it.
I love it.
The day of the Daniel Bryan Goat.
That's all he's doing.
The video festival.
All right.
I would normally change the music to do the plugs,
but I didn't bring the music.
Well, let me plug once.
Yes, please do, sir.
We have our pilot.
Alright, thank you.
lle.
Thank you.
I'm glad you had a great time with us.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Yeah.
But you all will eventually be a guest on.
And we'll be honored to do so.
But I have been developing something with Marcus Blake,
of that nerd show.
And it's show.
It's a group effort
of myself with a Dry Buy movies and Marcus.
And we have a new TV show where we review films,
right after we've seen him over Baron Pizza down at Old Chicago.
It does have a warning at the very beginning, so but yeah, definitely keep your eyes open and check out the movie roundtable when it comes to a television station near you
It'll be down in Austin first. Okay, and we also want to send a shout-out to friend of the show Jason B
Who's movie Donovan showed here at the Angelica about a month ago? What a great film amazing. What a great film. No, this is about a man dealing with bipolar disorder. Oh, no,
It's a local independent film from buddy of mine. I've known for about 20 years. Oh, wow, and he's spent out the last seven years making this film and they had the premiere here at the
Angel last month packed house all filmed locally
Unbelievably good. It's it's one of those films that and I said in my review it opens with if there's ever been a time where there's a need for
The voice of independent film we are currently in it because this movie is raw
It's honest and it's in your face about how people deal with bipolar disorders in every aspect of their life
And we're going to have Jason on the show to do a spotlight episode either this week coming next week
We haven't got to put that together and we're also we just got confirmation last week that James Venhouse from the the writer of
Night Owl Society who we talked to about a couple of months ago
He is going to be in the studio with us very very soon. He's at the North Texas comic book show this weekend
So he's going to come sit in studio with us and we're going to talk about how things have gone since we had the media roundtable now that all three issues of
Night Owl Society are out there. I have all of them except one of the number one covers
I have every every version of all three except that one. We're going to talk about
The possibility of volume two. We're going to talk about the lessons learned that he's been able to apply in some of the
Appearances that he's done great guy
We're looking forward to having him in the studio for another one of our spotlight episodes
This is kind of a subset of the show proper
These are not going to be shows that we're going to do live on you stream these will be strictly to our podcast listeners
We did one for
Bomb City and
Major Dodge is in Donovan. So I got to see him I got to see him at the premiere and got to talk to him and he's and he told me
That there's some big things coming up for bomb city. I don't know if he if I can talk about what he told me
We can talk about it off air, but bomb city is out there and it's
Impressing the right people as it should all right
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