Love Boat Taiwan, Taiwanese Diaspora, Violence against Asians with Valerie Soe - a podcast by Sean Niu
from 2021-03-30T12:00
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:
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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