We will produce two 30-minute episodes of Hmong Organization, a comedy web series.
May Lee-Yang will collaborate with local Hmong filmmakers to produce two 30-minute episodes of Hmong Organization, a comedy web series about a Hmong nonprofit and the people who work there. The completed episodes will be made available for free on Youtube.
2022-2023 Cultural Heritage and Community Identity Grants - Winter 2021
We will produce two 30-minute episodes of Hmong Organization The Web series.
We will engage 21 actors in this project.
We will air the episodes on Youtube, a free online platform accessible to people regardless of geography. Our goal is to reach a minimum of 5,000 viewers per episode.
We will host one online Q&A with the cast and crew about the project process and creation open to general audiences. Our goal is to reach a minimum of 50 viewers.
We will host one online panel aimed at sharing resources with emerging Hmong filmmakers. Our goal is to reach a minimum of 20 attendees.
This project is an extension of a web series that I was already working on. The editing for that process took much longer than expected and that series, which I'm creating in partnership with the Center for Hmong Arts and Talent (CHAT), is set to premier October 12 and run until November 23. If the MN Humanities Center agrees to extend the deadline for this project, I'd like to propose to finish this episode, so that it can be shared publicly on November 30, 2023, which would flow organically behind the edited series.