Christina Choe (Nancy) Talks with Andrew Ahn (This Close) for the Talkhouse Podcast

At the Kickstarter Lodge at Sundance, friends and fellow writer-directors Choe and Ahn have an unfiltered chat about film, family, festivals and more.

By Christina Choe, Andrew Ahn, and Talkhouse Podcast

6:00 AM EST on February 15, 2018

On the latest episode of the Talkhouse Podcast, we feature a conversation between friends, Kickstarter alums and fellow Korean-American writer-directors Andrew Ahn and Christina Choe, recorded at the Kickstarter Lodge during last month's Sundance Film Festival. Choe was at Sundance with her debut feature Nancy (which won her the festival's Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award) and Ahn with his Sundance Now TV show This Close, about two deaf best friends. Over the course of their wide-ranging and extremely unfiltered conversation, Ahn and Choe discuss not only their new projects but also telling stories of one's own community, how Andrew came out to his parents through a short film, Christina's club KGB (Koreans Gone Bad) – and a whole lot about Christina's mom! For more filmmakers talking film and TV, visit Talkhouse Film at talkhouse.com/film. Subscribe now on iTunes or Stitcher to stay in the loop about future Talkhouse Podcasts.

The music featured in the podcast is as follows:
1. Intro / outro underscore: “Plastic Man vs. The Giant Red Phase Of The Sun” – Iced Ink

Episode engineered by Lydia Branscomb and edited by Mark Yoshizumi. The Talkhouse podcast producer is Elia Einhorn.

Photo by John Nguyen.

Christina Choe

Christina Choe's debut feature Nancy recently premiered at Sundance in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, where it won the Waldo Salt Best Screenplay Award and was acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Films for theatrical release. Nancy stars Andrea Riseborough, Steve Buscemi, Ann Dowd, John Leguizamo, and J. Smith-Cameron and was included on the Best films of 2018 by Indiewire, The Village Voice and A/V Club. You can pre-order it in iTunes here. Choe's docu-series Welcome to the DPRK, a personal portrait of North Korea, was also recently acquired and released by Topic Studios/First Look Media, currently streaming online. Her short film I Am John Wayne won the Grand Jury Prize at the Slamdance Film Festival, while her other shorts The Queen and Flow screened at Telluride, SXSW and Aspen, among many others.

Andrew Ahn

Andrew Ahn is a Korean-American filmmaker born and raised in Los Angeles. His latest film, the drama Driveways, starring Hong Chau, Lucas Jaye and Brian Dennehy, is available on VOD from May 7. His feature debut Spa Night premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, was released theatrically by Strand Releasing and won Ahn the John Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirit Awards in 2017. The TV show This Close, which Ahn directed, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and aired on Sundance Now. (Photo by Mitch Dao.)

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