{"id":3652,"date":"2026-03-16T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2026-03-16T09:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:00:45","slug":"664-4qs-with-kathy-meng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3652","title":{"rendered":"664. 4Qs with Kathy Meng"},"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>Kathy Meng wrote and directed the short film \u201cWillow and Wu,\u201d a fantastic drama that had its Los Angeles Premiere at the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2025. \u201cWillow and Wu\u201d earned Kathy and her co-writer Harry Bacon the Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Screenplay -Drama, as well as the Grand Jury Award for Best Cinematography &#8211; Short Film.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy lives in Berlin and was not able to attend SOFF 2025, so I extra excited to chat with her and find out what types of films inspire her with the 4 Questions.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the film on Instagram at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/willowandwu_film\/\">@willowandwu_film<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow Kathy on Instagram at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kathy_meng\/\">@kathy_meng<\/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. Kathy Meng wrote and directed the short film \u201cWillow and Wu,\u201d a fantastic drama that had its Los Angeles Premiere at the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2025. \u201cWillow and Wu\u201d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3652\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;664. 4Qs with Kathy Meng&#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-3652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652","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=3652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}