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Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! What better way to celebrate than with the spectacular ladies from the Add To Cart podcast, journalist and MTV News pioneer SuChin Pak and writer and actress Kulap Vilaysack who was but a young ingenue when she was featured in the "A Benihana Christmas" episode of The Office -- which we dive DEEP into for this ep of Problematic Fave. Vilaysack talks about her experience being involved this very divisive episode which stepped back into the spotlight when her co-star in the ep Kat Ahn talked about it. There is a lot to this episode so get yourself ready for three aunties talking shop about a problematic episode that includes very bad Asian representation of a beloved TV series during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! === Problematic Fave is presented by DIASPORA and is created, hosted and produced by Dino-Ray Ramos. The series is also produced by Sanjay Sharma of Marginal MediaWorks and edited by Brian Aguilar. SuChin Pak: @suchinpak Kulap Vilaysack: @iamkulap Add To Cart: @addtocartpod DIASPORA: thediasporatimes.com; @realdiaspora on Twitter and Instagram Dino-Ray Ramos: @dinoray on Twitter and Instagram Marginal MediaWorks: @mrgnlmedia on Instagram Send your "problematic faves" to thisisdiaspora@gmail.com and we'll share them on the pod with our guests! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/problematicfavepod/support
Kulap was born in Washington D.C. and raised in Eagan, Minnesota. She is the child of Lao refugees. Her debut documentary, Origin Story, chronicles a road trip into her complicated past to meet her biological father and understand her mother. Vilaysack was also the creator, showrunner and sometimes director of the 4-season semi-scripted comedy series Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ (Seeso). She served as showrunner and co-executive producer of A Legendary Christmas With John & Chrissy (NBC). Kulap also directed the Emily Heller Comedy Special, Ice Thickeners (Comedy Central Digital). She currently co-hosts Add To Cart with SuChin Pak --a podcast about what we buy and what that says about who we are for Lemonada Media.In this episode, Kulap shares her experience being a showrunner as a woman of color and the challenges that come along with that. Support the show (http://whyyounodoctor.com/podcast)
- Two MPE documentaries available to stream online - British National Health Service faced with a DNA quandary - Who was Florence Crittenton? - @joolsjackson looks for connections to Anne Fessler - Kulap Vilaysack (@Kulap) discusses her MPE and her new documentary originstorydoc.com Please subscribe, rate and review. AND SHARE!
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Presenting part 2 of our coverage from the 2019 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival! On this installment, we chat with more Asian American actors, producers, and filmmakers about their projects that screened at LAAPFF, including catching up with some old friends! Featured on this episode are: Bao Nguyen & Jeff Chang from We Gon' Be Alright Kevin Kreider, Doris Yeung, Bianca Kuijper, & Bing Wang from The Ugly Model Mandi Li, Celia Au, & Yi Liu from In a New York Minute Kulap Vilaysack from Origin Story Learn more about Visual Communication’s 2019 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival at festival.vcmedia.org As always, send us your listener emails at podcast@kollaboration.org Learn more about the KollabCast and listen to past episodes here Follow the films featured on this episode: We Gon' Be Alrightbealright.netWatch now on Facebook Watch The Ugly Modelwww.uglymodeldoc.com @uglymodeldoc In a New York Minute IMDB Page Origin Storywww.originstorydoc.com @originstorydocWatch Now on Amazon Prime Follow our hosts at: @marvinyueh@minjeeeezy Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Radio Public or via our RSS feed (http://kollaboration.libsyn.com/rss) The KollabCast is a podcast about pop culture and the creative life from an Asian American perspective
Kulap Vilaysack, Janet Varney, Ben Partridge and Tiffany Stevenson join host, Dave Holmes for stories about dumb crimes, old timey musicians and chicken fights. Kulap Vilaysack wants to plug her SeeSo.com show Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ and recommends FX Network comedy You're The Worst. Janet Varney wants to plug her podcast The JV Club and is on Twitter
Childrens Hospital star and Co-Host of Who Charted, Kulap Vilaysack joins Jordan & Jesse to talk about barber shop super groups, superficial world travelers and awesomely strange gifts.