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More Web Series for, by & about Biracial & Mixed Race Characters and People
We hooked you up with a great starter list of web series for, by and about biracial and mixed race characters and people last year, but we have more to add to the mix as we say here at Mixed Remixed! Check out some of these great web series from some really talented folks:
1. Almost Asian, written directed and starring Katie Malia
This is a really fantastic and funny series brought to you by writer/actress Katie Malia. Malia does an excellent job of finding the funny in the Mixed and multiracial experience. Her humorous take on how Hollywood perceives mixed-race folks is so right and so funny, you’ll laugh out loud, but sometimes cringe because you wish it weren’t true. As of this writing, Malia is 9 episodes in. We hope the episodes keep coming!
This is the description from Malia herself: “Almost Asian” is a unique and witty new webseries from actress and writer, Katie Malia, that explores the ethnic dichotomies and racial diversities prevalent in youth culture today.
Each episode polaroids Katie’s personal and professional struggles as she awkwardly attempts to maneuver through life as a half-Asian mix. From stereotypes to expectations to identity and acceptance, “Almost Asian” not only wants to create an open forum and dialogue for other Gen-Y “halfers” but also celebrate their success and strife through tongue-in-cheek humor. The writing is unapologetic and voice, brash, as Katie half-sheds the quiet and submissive Japanese female stereotype and elbows her way to a seat at society’s set table.”
2. Schwarz Rot Gold
“Schwarz Rot Gold” is produced by Jermain Raffington (journalist) und Laurel Raffington (psychologist). The project is motivated by Jermain’s personal experience of growing up as a Black person in Germany as well as Laurel and Jermain’s dream of raising their children in a non-racist, open-minded Germany. The idea to start Schwarz Rot Gold originated in 2012. All portraits were filmed in the summer of 2014. Season 1 was published in April 2015 and season 2 is now in post-production. You can see all of the first season with English subtitles on the filmmakers’ website.
3. The Nive Nulls
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Now, it’s your turn! Tell us who we should be following!
—Heidi Durrow, Festival Founder
Related articles across the web
What’s So Funny About Being Mixed? VIDEO
Check out what some of the panelists (comedians Tehran, Sunda Croonquist, Alex Barnett, and novelist Mat Johnson) from our wonderful panel What’s So Funny About Being Mixed? had to say on stage as well as off! What do you think? – Heidi Durrow
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Pulitzer Prize Finalist Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account Now in Paperback!
This is a wonderful book by Laila Lalami which hits shelves today in paperback. The Moor’s Account was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize this year and I know you’ll love it.–Heidi Durrow
“An exciting tale of wild hopes, divided loyalties, and highly precarious fortunes.” —The New Yorker
“An absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth.” —Salman Rushdie
“Stunning. . . . The Moor’s Account sheds light on all of the possible the New World exploration stories that didn’t make history.” —Huffington Post
“Lalami has once again shown why she is one of her generation’s most gifted writers.” —Reza Aslan, author of Zealot
“Compelling. . . . Necessary. . . . Laila Lalami’s mesmerizing The Moor’s Account presents us a historical fiction that feels something like a plural totality . . . a narrative that braids points of view so intricately that they become one even as we’re constantly reminded of the separate and often contrary strands that render the whole.” —The Los Angeles Review of Books
“Richly rewarding.” —NPR
Laila Lalami is the author of the short story collection Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, and the novel Secret Son, which was on the Orange Prize long list. Her essays and opinion pieces have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Guardian, and The New York Times, and in many anthologies. She is the recipient of a British Council Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Lannan Residency Fellowship and is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles.
Al Madrigal on Being Biracial
“I’m half-Mexican – get used to it ’cause in about five to 10 years, you’re all gonna be related to one. Whether you like it or not, no matter how much you prepared your family, you’re gonna show up at Thanksgiving one of these years, you’re gonna walk in and say, ‘Hey! What’s happening? Since when did we start serving flan?'”-Al Madrigal
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Jamie Ford on Being Biracial
“As a kid who grew up never feeling Chinese enough (because I didn’t speak Cantonese like my dad) and never feeling white enough (because I ate stuff like chicken feet and dried cuttlefish that freaked out my Caucasian friends), Mixed Remixed was like Camelot. It was magical. Everyone had gone through their own weird, bi-racial journey. It was a giant, collective, beautiful validation.”-Jamie Ford
Mixed Remixed Festival in New York Times
Identity, Race or Otherwise, Is Your Lived Experience
by Heidi W. Durrow
Heidi W. Durrow is the author of “The Girl Who Fell From the Sky,” a novel.
JUNE 16, 2015
“Are those your eyes?” It’s a question I’m asked almost daily as a brown-skinned woman who has dark curly hair and bright blue eyes.
My father was African-American and my mother is Danish and I’m ethnically ambiguous. I look Dominican to Dominicans, Bangladeshi to Bangladeshis, Puerto Rican to Puerto Ricans, and Greek to Greeks. I’m a reluctant shape-shifter.
I learned that because of the peculiar way that math and race work together in America, I was black. But those facts conflicted with my actual experience.
So I couldn’t help but celebrate when I saw the headlines last week that multiracial Americans are the country’s fastest-growing population. In the future, it’s possible that people who look like me will be the norm.
This past weekend some 700 attendees celebrated stories of mixed-race people and families at the Mixed Remixed Festival — an annual film, book and performance festival in Los Angeles. There was much discussion of the bizarre case of Rachel Dolezal, the now past president of Spokane’s N.A.A.C.P. chapter, who was outed by her family as passing as black.
Read the rest of the article here.
LA Writers: Writing Workshop with Festival Fave Chris Terry
Narrating a Life Between Cultures
Instructor: Chris L. Terry
This workshop will explore writing significant moments of otherness––featuring, but not limited to, multicultural, mixed race, immigrant, and LGBTQ perspectives. Literature on the topic of identity, such as Caucasia by Danzy Senna, and Nevada by Imogen Binnie, will be used for discussion. Working from multiple prompts, writers will complete the workshop with material that that can be linked for an essay, expanded into multiple pieces, or fictionalized for a short story or a novel. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of how to narrate life between cultures. Sign up now!
Sunday, August 23, 2015
Location: Beverly Hills
11am – 2pm
Chris L. Terry’s debut novel Zero Fade (Curbside Splendor) was on the Best of 2013 lists by Kirkus Reviews, Slate Magazine, and the American Library Association. He has taught creative writing everywhere from grade schools to prisons to senior centers, and is currently working on a novel about a mixed-race punk bassist with a black imaginary friend.Who Should Receive the 2016 Storyteller’s Prize?
We’re looking for your ideas about who should receive the 2016 Storyteller’s Prize at the Mixed Remixed Festival next year. We have a stellar list of distinguished past honorees including: Key & Peele, Al Madrigral, Susan Straight, Jamie Ford, Cheerios and Honey Maid. Who do you think we should consider? Let us know!
Join the Mixed Remixed Planning Team!
We’re looking for volunteers and interns to help plan for 2016 (date to come)! Do you have a special skill (web design, marketing, social media, video editing, photography, grant writing, project management)? Maybe you just have time on your hands? We have lots of stuff we need help with. Maybe you just want to hang out with some really great people? Then join us! Sign up here. You do not have to be based in LA to join the planning team.
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