3rd Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival
June 12-13, 2010
Japanese American National Museum
369 East 1st Street
Los Angeles, CA
‘The Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival is a non-competitive, annual arts festival dedicated to sharing and nurturing storytelling of the Mixed experience. The Mixed experience refers to interracial and intercultural relationships, transracial and transcultural adoptions, and anyone who identifies as having biracial, multiracial, Hapa or Mixed identity.’
This is an amazing festival that will feature this year such works as the critically-acclaimed debut novel of Festival co-founder Heidi Durrow, “The Girl Who Fell From the Sky“, Biracial Not Black Damn It-part 2, book readings by Kim Wayans (actress) and Dr. Maya Soetoro- Ng (President Obama’s sister), and a Loving award to be presented to an outstanding artist, storyteller or community leader, for inspirational dedication to celebrating and illuminating the Mixed racial and cultural experience.
From the website:
Festival Co-Founders Heidi Durrow and Fanshen Cox met in New York at an audition for a show about multi-racial people. Both were sure that the other would “steal” the role from the only other “blue-eyed, curly haired light-skinned” girl. When both were cast, they began a long and fruitful friendship, supporting each other as artists and through the various challenges they faced surrounding their search for identity on their own terms.
In 2007, the two created the popular podcast: Mixed Chicks Chat, the live, weekly show about being racially and culturally Mixed (www.mixedchickschat.com). The show has a loyal following of live chatters, more than 4,000 downloads per month and won Best Podcast from the Black Weblog Awards. The hosts have been featured on NPR, CNN, and in the Guardian, The San Francisco Chronicle and Blur Digital.
It was while talking to guests of Mixed Chicks Chat that Fanshen and Heidi realized they had to create a space where artists who identify as Mixed could display their works and encourage others to do so as well. This is how the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival was born! The first festival, held in 2008, was a huge success and fostered excitement and a dedication to continue to search out and create content that addresses the Mixed experience.
The Interracial Family Organization congratulates and supports this incredible event. If any of our readers are able to attend the festival, please share your experiences on our website by contacting us at team@interracialfamily.org!
