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April 2020 72 Hour Shootout Q&A with Filmmaker and 72 Hour Shootout Coordinator Tyler Ham Pong — Via YouTube
A succinct reminder about the 72 Hour Shoot Out 2020: The Asian American Film Lab is partnering again with Backstage Magazine to support ethnic and gender parity in the arts through the Film Lab’s annual 72 Hour Shootout filmmaking competition, a global filmmaking competition for everyone from novices to established filmmakers. Because of the pandemic, making films where you are bivouacked, sheltered, quarantined (voluntary and involuntary), marooned — et.al. — can be the paths for great shooting.
I interviewed Tyler April 3 via my iPhone and then spent days and days in brain lock, going back and forth about how to write up the interview when I came across his great YouTube Q&A that was streamed live with a give and take between him and several filmmakers singing up for the Shoot Out and the format was incredibly informing and inspiring.
I’m adding after the video below, in news feature form, the best of my April 3 contact with us talking. I tried not to be too redundant and the focus is more on Tyler as well as his and the Asian American Film Lab’s passionate commitment against the bashing and assaulting of Asian Americans, other minorities as well as other against groups in these COVID-19 times.
