If you love The Karate Kid Part 2, you’ll appreciate this scene from our movie Awesome Asian Bad Guys. When we shot this scene, I didn’t really remember the Japanese tea ceremony scene from Karate Kid 2. And if I…
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Long Distance Podcast: Call Us!
Long Distance wants YOU! Call us at +1-213-293-6024 and leave us a voicemail with your story about being Filipino wherever you are. We might share it on the podcast, on LDtv, or maybe even make an episode about it. Video…
Top 5 Reasons to Apply to the Google Podcasts creator program with PRX
Have a podcast or thinking of starting one? Apply to the Google Podcasts creator program by April 28. Check out our podcast Long Distance, a narrative podcast about life in the Filipino diaspora that is part of program’s inaugural cohort.…
Apply to the 2nd Round of the Google Podcasts creator program
Applications to Round 2 of the Google Podcasts creator program are now open. If you’re a podcaster, definitely check it out. The deadline is April 14. Paola and I are just under two months into the inaugural program with Long…
Take the Long Distance Listener Survey!
If you listen to Long Distance podcast, please take a couple minutes to fill out our first ever listener survey. It’s super quick and easy and will really help Paola and me make the show even better! Just go to…
Long Distance Podcast: Episode 5 – Long Distance Love Story
Episode 5 of Long Distance podcast is out and it’s actually about a long distance relationship as Paola Mardo tells the story of two ex-high school sweethearts turned OFWs reconnecting almost forty years later. The episodes drop monthly, so subscribe…
Talking H.P. Mendoza’s Bitter Melon, Bad Guys, and more on FilAm Creative’s Voices Podcast
This was a fun interview to do with the awesome folks of FilAm Creative: Voices podcast. We recorded this some time I think in the summer of 2018, so I’m pretty sure I talk heavily about playing Troy in H.P.…
LDtv: Long Distance Podcast in Brooklyn!
Paola and I met up with some of our Long Distance podcast listeners in Brooklyn, NY and asked them some hard-hitting questions about the show. Watch the Long Distance Teaser: Subscribe to Long Distance here. Follow Long Distance on Instagram…
LDtv: Our trip to the Google Podcasts creator program bootcamp!
Long Distance host/producer Paola Mardo and I take a trip to Boston, Massachusetts for the Google Podcasts creator program boot camp at the PRX Podcast Garage. A behind-the-scenes look at their podcast adventures and thoughts about weather in this edition…
The FINAL Bitter Melon Poster
Here’s the final version of the Bitter Melon movie poster. I’m biased but I love this thing. The final BITTER MELON poster which combines blurbs with awards and End-Of-Year lists. Congratulations, Team #BitterMelonFilm! pic.twitter.com/0g5PTL2Zlj — Ersatz Film (@ersatzfilm) February 11,…