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Click the linked text, as follows, to learn more about Mid Autumn Film Night 2022 (MAFN). Click the linked text to view select films from featured MAFN artists on SEAD’s Vimeo page.
Recorded in Nov 2022. Explicit language was permitted for each MAFN Talk conversation.Our guest today is Kelly Huang, a Minneapolis based documentary filmmaker, video marketer, and actor. You can learn more about Kelly and her work at her website below:
https://www.kellyhuangfilms.com/
Kelly submitted her most recent work, “My Borrowed Name”, to SEAD’s Mid Autumn Film Night. (Read more at our MAFN webpage.) In our conversation, we hear about the struggles with her Lao and Chinese backgrounds that has informed her films and creative work, her thoughts on local theater with a focus on MN's Guthrie Theater's 2022 production of "Vietgone" and Jungle Theater's production of "Cambodian Rock Band", the newly rich extended family whose affluence was seed-funded by her mom in the past decade, and the struggles of finding a social and creative home when there's not a central phub for Lao creatives to connect in.
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A brief of what the MAFN Talk podcast series came from: This past Oct 2022, The SEAD Project hosted our Mid-Autumn Film Night, or MAFN - an indoor screen feast of Southeast Asian past, present, and futures made by SEA filmmakers near and far and was a portal for the local Twin Cities SEA community to see through the artistic eyes of SEA creatives.
Listen to our interviews with featured film artists from MAFN. Also, check out our Rad Café 2021 conversation series, on SEA diasporic political co-learning.
These films are love letters inked in the sinking struggles, sojourns, and unsettled worlds that make up the complex and beautiful weight of our Southeast Asian communities.
