ຂອບໃຈ. cảm ơn. ua tsaug. អរគុណ. thank you for listening.

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 Loan Hoang (she/her). You can find more about her, including her featured film for SEAD entitled "things i wished someone told me when i was younger," at her website, sincerelyloan.com and under her "film" page.

Loan Hoang is a Vietnamese American producer and writer based in Los Angeles. As an immigrant and woman of color, she is passionate about sharing stories that authentically portray her communities’ lived experiences and intersectionalities. Her work has been featured as a Staff Pick on Vimeo and selected for Athens International Film Festival, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, MARFA Film Festival, New Orleans International Film Festival, RAW Film Festival, San Diego Asian Film Festival (Best Narrative Short), Seattle Asian Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, Viet International Film Festival, and OUTFEST Fusion Film Festival.

Loan is currently writing a miniseries showcasing underground Vietnamese youth culture in the early 2000s based on her experience during that time with Orange County’s Vietnamese Catholic Scouts community.

In our conversation, Deryck and Tri hear about Loan's being part of the last graduating classes at UCLA to pursue a major and attain a degree in Southeast Asian Studies and the Singapore-based Asian American studies class that came with it, her loneliness of being a K-pop enthusiast in the early aughts, how her new adventures in film directing and production has been a big creative break from her many years of breakdancing, why Asians gotta stop fighting each other, her pet dog Zoe's real-life stand off against the visiting mailman, and much more.

Please send any inquiries regarding MAFN and MAFN Talk to Tri (he/anh/em pronouns) at ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠. Send inquiries regarding The SEAD Project to ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠.

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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.

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Music: "River in the Jungle" by SnowMusicStudio

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