A Creative Process with Resistance and Resilience (part 2) with Karoline Xu and Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence

Part 2 of Episode 7. Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence and Karoline Xu open up about surviving in racial capitalism and the human need to express one’s truth. These filmmakers of color discuss trauma and solidarity in light of recent and unending atrocities.

Karoline is an actor, writer, and filmmaker. She studied English at Harvard and acting at Atlantic Acting School and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Off-Broadway: The Hard Problem at Lincoln Center Theater, and the world premiere of [Veil Widow Conspiracy] at Next Door @ NYTW, for which The New York Times singled her out as “terrific.” TV/FILM: Lincoln (NBC), Evil (CBS), PIPPI, Kiss (Means of Production), Softee’s “Oh No.” Her screenwriting has been a finalist of Outfest, Orchard Project, The Future of Film is Female, and WAVE Grant. Her short film PIPPI won the Audience Award at the Dallas International Film Festival. karolinexu.com

Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence is a writer-director hailing from Washington, DC and Honolulu, Hawai‘i. Raised in a family of activists, critical race theorists, and freedom fighters, she has always been drawn to storytelling as a means to building a new world. After working in theater in New York, Kimiko transitioned to television and film, writing for TV shows TWENTIES and BOOMERANG. Her past work includes the plays Holding: A Queer Black Love Story; Black Magic; and I, Too, Am Harvard (also a viral photo campaign). Most recently, Kimiko produced the short film little trumpet, set to premiere in Spring 2022.

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Thank you to Jenny M Ng for helping to edit this episode.