Mixed Remixed Festival

What’s Your Favorite Interracial TV Couple?

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I recently asked my Facebook friends this question and the answers were wide-ranging from the most current like Olivia and Fitz on Scandal to Helen and Tom Willis on The Jeffersons.  What do you think?–Heidi Durrow

Favorite interracial TV couple? Fitz and Olivia? Or Tom & Helen? #mixedremixed

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2014 Festival Re-cap: Sleeping with the Fishes Feature Film

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fishesrecapThe Mixed Remixed Festival was so excited to screen, Sleeping with the Fishes, the directorial feature debut of Nicole Gomez Fisher who just weeks after our screening won Best Director at the Imagen Awards.  (So well-deserved Nicole!  We love you!)

We were so lucky to have Nicole Gomez Fisher attend and participate in a Q&A led by Festival Team Leader extraordinaire, Rayme Cornell, directly following the film.  We can’t wait to see what Nicole does next!

Sleeping with the Fishes is a comedy which captures one girl’s journey of self-discovery and the dynamics of her zany family.  With its fair share of “ay dios mio” and “oy vey” moments, the film comes to life with colorful characters and one-liners that can only be found in a Latino Jewish home in Brooklyn.

A slice-of-life, Sleeping with the Fishes features an incredible Latino cast of established and rising talent who come together to tell a relatable and comically poignant story.

Cast includes: Gina Rodriguez (yes her!), Ana Ortiz (yes her too!), Steven Strait, Priscilla Lopez

Screen Shot 2013-05-09 at 1.01.29 AMmx14_nicole_gomez_fisherNicole Gomez Fisher is the writer and director of Sleeping with the Fishes, an official selection of the 2013 Brooklyn Film Festival. She’s just finished writing her second feature, Good Egg, an action comedy, as well as spec scripts for Modern Family and The Big Bang Theory. Nicole has received international recognition for her comedy writing. Both Sleeping with the Fishes and her original sitcom, This is My Life, won praise at recent screenwriting competitions. Starting out as an actress and stand-up comic from Brooklyn, Nicole is a founding member of The Hot Tamales Live!, the Latina comedy tour produced by Eva Longoria. She went on to write and perform her acclaimed one-woman show, Mixed, at the New York Underground Comedy Festival. Nicole’s film, television and theater acting credits include a recurring role on 24, General Hospital, Empire (an Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival), Frankie and Johnny are Married (starring Mandy Patinkin), Habla for HBO Latino and Birth Marks (part of The Ensemble Studios Marathon Series). Nicole’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Time Out NY, Backstage, Theater Mania and 15 Minutes Magazine. Sleeping with the Fishes marks Nicole’s directorial debut.Screen Shot 2013-05-09 at 12.08.22 AM

1st Mixed Remixed Write-In Now in Seattle and LA! Oct. 11 at 11am

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UPDATE: THIS EVENT WILL BE HELD ON OCT. 25, 2014 AT 11AM.  SAME LOCATIONS! We’re excited to have our very first write-in.  Now you can meet-up in Los Angeles and the Seattle Area.  Bring your neglected work-in-progress and laptop or paper and pen and get energized by your fellow Mixed Remixed writers.  And please let us know that you’re coming so we can save some tables together!  RSVP here.

Los Angeles: at the Coffee Connection, 3838 S. Centinela Avenue, LA, CA.

Seattle: Third Place Books, Lake Forest Place, 17171 NE Bothell Way, Lake Forest Park, WA 98155

See you then! – Heidi Durrow

100-Foot Journey: Movie Review

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I reviewed the book this film is based on for NPR a few years ago so I was eager to see how it translated to the big screen. And can I say I thought it translated quite well!

It’s a sweet fairy-tale kind of story and it’s also the kind of story that the Mixed Remixed Festival loves to celebrate: a story about our racial and cultural connectedness.  I don’t think I’m spoiling it by saying that the story features not one but two interracial relationships.  And well, it’s just a lovely story about longing, and dreaming and what it really means to make your dreams come true.  Check it out! I think you’ll like it a lot!–Heidi Durrow

New Play about Mixed Family Tours UK

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I hope I’ll have a chance to check out this new play touring the UK, My Name Is . . . about a mixed-race girl.  The play is inspired by a real story from 2006.

According to the Independent: “In August 2006, 12-year-old Molly Campbell, a mixed-race schoolgirl “disappeared” from Stornaway, in the Outer Hebrides. Her father, British-Pakistani Sajad Rana, who was divorced from her mother, Louise Campbell, had moved back to Pakistan with his older children and wanted Molly to join them. Louise was terrified she would lose her remaining child. When her daughter didn’t come back home, she feared Rana had abducted her and called the police. Louise’s mother publicly said Rana was plotting to marry off the child, adding further piquancy to the rising public outrage about Asian “barbarism”. And then came the startling/shocking finale. At a press conference in Lahore, Molly, dressed in a bright shalwar khameez, cheerfully told journalists that she had left Scotland of her own free will and wanted to live with her dad. She was no longer Molly Campbell, but “Misbah Rana”, a Pakistani Muslim. Long court battles ensued, politicians got involved, and in the end Louise gave up the fight. Most Britons found it hard to understand why the pre-teen gave up her Western freedoms and chose a severely proscribed life. She is now back in the UK and living with her mother.”

It sounds fascinating! —Heidi Durrow

Book & Mixed Remixed Festival T-shirt Giveaway

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20140804-112137.jpgWant to win a copy of the awesome book Forbidden Love: The Hidden History of Mixed-Race America by Gary B. Nash.  The Festival is featured in this latest edition and we are lucky to have copies to giveaway to 3 lucky winners.  Enter to win by answering this Mixed experience history question. Winners will be chosen at random from all correct answers.–Heidi Durrow

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