{"id":3623,"date":"2026-01-28T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3623"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:00:05","slug":"643-4qs-with-hao-yan-mandy-chen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3623","title":{"rendered":"643. 4Qs with Hao Yan &amp; Mandy Chen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are the 4Qs? (1) Three favorite films. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out.<\/p>\n<p>Hao Yan &amp; Mandy Chen collaborated to make the short film \u201cWinter Psalm,\u201d a wonderfully touching film that they brought to Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2025 and took home the Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Writing, Drama.<\/p>\n<p>They make a great team and I was so delighted to have them on together for a chat (posted Monday) and this follow up 4 Questions!<\/p>\n<p>When the film releases online we will add a link here, but in the meantime you can follow both of these filmmakers at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hao_yan3\">@hao_yan3<\/a>\u00a0 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mmandy.cc\/\">@mmandy.cc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _<\/p>\n<p>Discover Indie Film Links<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/discoverindiefilm.com\">DIF Podcast Website<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/heffay111\/\">DIF Instagram<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/difwins.bsky.social\">DIF BlueSky<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/discoverindiefilm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discover Indie Film Foundation (nonprofit for the arts) Website<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/shermanoaksfilmfestival.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sherman Oaks Film Festival<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/filminvasionla.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Film Invasion Los Angeles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Discover Film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the 4Qs? (1) Three favorite films. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out. Hao Yan &amp; Mandy Chen collaborated to make the short film \u201cWinter Psalm,\u201d a wonderfully touching film that they brought to Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2025 and took home the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3623\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;643. 4Qs with Hao Yan &amp; Mandy Chen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}