Category: Interview

When I saw Josette Jorge win a Canadian Screen Award earlier this year, I was overjoyed to see a fellow Asian Pacific Islander friend receive such recognition. An actor, writer, and educator based in Toronto, Josette earned her first Canadian Screen Award in 2025 for Best Supporting Performer in a Children’s or Youth Program for Ruby and the Well. Last year, my producing partner Cindy Au Yeung and I also received a Canadian Screen Award—Best Comedy Special—for our series Comedy Invasio

Jenifer Yeuroukis, a filmmaker friend I’ve met about a decade ago in my hip hop classes at the former Edge Performance Art Center in Los Angeles, has just directed her first feature film The Queerdos that I executive produced. The Queerdos also marks the first feature film of the film movement Dogma LA 25 that a collective of filmmakers and I have founded. Wrapping The Queerdos, I’ve taken the opportunity to have a conversation with her.

Returning to the city where I was born, Hong Kong, I met up with artist Chow Ciao Chow whom I first knew as Steven and a fashion design student. After years of having lost touch, we reconnected via Instagram and he told me we met years ago through a mutual friend and hung out in Hong Kong. Returning to this amazing city, I took the opportunity to interview this rising artist with a uniquely queer and Asian perspective.

Last year, Colette Johnson-Vosberg’s Unusually Normal world premiered at Inside Out. This year, she is world-premiering her LGBTQ+ follow-up feature doc Unlabelled about three trans people from Toronto at the same festival. I caught up with my prolific collaborator after hearing the news of her film’s world premiere.

CHOPSO discovered a young Seattle-based comic Adam Tiller and we have interviewed him for the New Year about his upcoming shows.

CHOPSO interviewed Yong Yoon who is releasing his first feature In the Land of the Blind that he made while still at UCLA Film School in the 90s for the first time to the world. In the Land of the Blind streams today via AAM.

On the eve before the world premiere of Zombiclaus (2024), a 35 seconds short film fully created with AI by filmmaker Quentin Lee, CHOPSO discusses the genesis of Zombiclaus with the writer, director and producer who made the film all by himself via AI technology

Dropping the trailer on Youtube today, Yale in Hollywood Fest will launch their fifth edition global virtual film festival streaming free to the world from…

I first met Randi Liberman when she was subbing for dancer Hero Thomas’ class at Los Angeles’ Millennium Dance Complex. I enjoyed her choreography so much that—because I couldn’t make her regular class—I’ve decided to take private lessons from her. Originally from Montréal and now working as a dancer, choreographer and teacher in Los Angeles, Randi currently dances for pop artist Ava Max, teaches hip hop dance at Millennium Dance Complex and choreographs for various rising music artists. I took the opportunity to interview her about her rising career.

Writer Adi Tantimedh and I first met at the 1995 Vancouver International Film Festival through British film critic Tony Rayns. Adi was at VIFF with his NYU MFA thesis film while I was there with my “first feature” Flow, a feature compilation of my short films made at UCLA Film School. The fictional filmmaker character in Flow resembled Adi so that many people at the festival thought Adi was me; and hence this doppelganger relationship at a film festival was how we connected. Almost three decades later, I caught up with Adi whose podcast series Sanctuary will be released this month on August 19 by Voyage Media.