Director, writer, and professor Valerie Soe joins Sean to share her creative journey and the making of her newest documentary: Love Boat: Taiwan

You can watch Love Boat here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/loveboattaiwan

and you can watch more of Valerie's activist-oriented films here:

Picturing Oriental Girls

The Chinese Gardens

Notes:

1) Valerie gives her thoughts and action items in reaction to the recent violence on Asian Americans (3:27) 2) Valerie shares her career path as a multi-disciplinary artist and professor. (17:40)
3) As well as her activist history, and how she sees the new generation of activists (20:58) 4) Valerie's thoughts on the recent growth of Asian Americans on screen and how we should think about what we want to see next. (Hint: more creators behind the camera) (28:00) 5) Valerie's experience making Love Boat (32:17) 6) Sean asks Valerie about how making Love Boat helped inform her about Chinese diaspora identity (40:58) 7) Valerie shares what she learned about Love Boat as a strategy for the Taiwan gov to spread policy (52:52) 8) And finally, what surprised her the most while making the documentary. (57:03)

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