Diving into the Uncomfortable - Minerva Navasca | EP 98

Send us a text Minerva Navasca’s Bio: Minerva Navasca is a Filipina-Canadian filmmaker exploring narratives of cultural dysphoria and girlhood with intimate specificity. Stating, “I want to make films about subjects that make me uncomfortable,” Minerva delves into perspectives steeped in anxiety and internalized shame, using the medium to interrogate the socio-political roots of these beliefs.  She is a 2022 & 2024 TIFF Next Wave Alumni, and the winner of the 2024 BFI Future Film Festival Best Documentary Award. She collaborated with NBC Universal and Canada Walk of Fame as part of the Future Storytellers Program. A conversation with Minerva @minervanavasca, a conversation about being Filipino-Canadian, being a female POC filmmaker and the filmmaking industry, and creating film and art that explores and digs into one’s experiences that are often uncomfortable and hard to process. Follow Minerva: Website https://www.minervanavasca.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/minervanavasca?igsh=YjN2dnA4MXdxb2Mw @minervanavasca Desync’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/desync.shortfilm?igsh=aHd4OHhtc2tlMG5l @desync.shortfilm    List of Available Screenings for Minerva’s work: October 15-19 2024 - Alpavirama International Youth Film Festival, Ahmedabad, India October 17 2024 - Bushwick Film Festival, New York City NY October 19 - Hamilton Film Festival, Hamilton ON October 22 & 26 2024 - Forest City Film Festival, London ON October 26 2024 - Micheaux Film Festival, Los Angeles CA October 26 2024 - Durham Region International Film Festival, Oshawa ON October 28 2024 - SCAD Savannah Film Festival, Savannah GA October 31 to November 8 - Singapore Youth Film Festival, Singapore November 6-10 2024 - Yellowknife Film Festival, Yellowknife NWT November 8 2024 - Ottawa Canadian Film Festival, Ottawa ON November 9 2024 - FilAm Creative Film Festival, Los Angeles CA November 7-10 2024 - Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Vancouver BC (exact date TBC) November 7-16 2024 - San Diego Asian Film Festival, San Diego CA (exact date TBC) November 8-11 2024 - FilAm Creative Film Festival, Los Angeles CA (exact date TBC) November 13-17 2024 - Mighty Niagara Film Festival, St Catharines ON (exact date TBC) Support the show Thank you for listening! Help this podcast: 1. Follow us on Instagram @whatkindofasianpod 2. Share our episodes with friends and family 3. Subscribe to us on your streaming platform 4. Leave us a rating and review on Spotify and Apple Podcast 5. Buy Us a Coffee! (Supporting us financially really helps but it"s definitely not required, do it if you can) All the links! https://linktr.ee/whatkindofasianareyoupod