The CreativeLife podcast Episode 2 is up! With Emily C. Chang!
Emily C. Chang: Ready to “wreck shop.”
ACTORS!: NBC DIVERSITY SCENE SHOWCASE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
NBC DIVERSITY SCENE SHOWCASE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
NBC Diversity Scene Showcase is accepting actor submissions for its 5th Annual Diversity Scene Showcase.
The NBC Diversity Scene Showcase is a one night event where NBC produces a showcase of 5 minute scenes by up-and-coming diverse writers and directors, starring new diverse talent.
Selected actors perform for NBC Entertainment executives and casting directors, talent agents, managers, as well as other industry professionals. Auditions will be held in Los Angeles this June.
Deadline for Submissions is Friday, March 30, 2012.
To submit electronically, go to www.breakdownexpress.com through theActors Access section and the link listed as the NBC Diversity Scene Showcase. Only one submission will be accepted.
For more information, please read the official press release.
AsAm FILMMAKERS!: Submit for Mnet’s Short Notice Asian American Short Film Program!
From our friends at 8Asians, an announcement about this cool short films program for Asian Americans. Click here or the excerpt below for the original 8Asians post. Happy Monday!
Mnet America’s Short Notice Asian American Short Film Program Open For Submissions
…For more information, check out the Short Notice official website. All submissions will be due on March 15th, 2012. Good hunting!!
If you’re any kind of “other” in our society, you become accustomed to imagining yourself in the perspective of someone really different than yourself in order to enjoy a story. Since it could be argued we live in a culture that values the stories of white men most of the time, it makes sense that we all become used to seeing things from their perspective. (I mentioned this in a piece just yesterday but it’s complicated, powerful dynamic so it bears repeating here.) There’s a passage in Margaret Cho’s hilarious 2002 autobiography ‘I’m the One That I Want’ where Cho talks about how, as a young girl, she couldn’t wait to grow up and become white like everyone on TV.
