{"id":864,"date":"2010-05-31T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ta100people.wpengine.com\/?p=864"},"modified":"2010-09-02T15:13:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T22:13:46","slug":"karen-lin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/karen-lin\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Chia-ru Lin &#8211; Filmmaker and Music Video Producer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplePullQuote right\"><p>I look forward to seeing what parts of our culture we will be able to  pass to our children, and they to their children. It will be a colorful  future&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1003\" title=\"lin.karen4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lin.karen4-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"lin.karen4\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lin.karen4-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lin.karen4.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Who are you?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am a 2nd generation Taiwanese American born in Seattle to my mother from Taipei and my father from Taoyuan. I have an amazing sister and an amazingly large &#8220;Proud to be Taiwanese&#8221; family &#8211;all 80 of us (and that&#8217;s just my immediate family!!). I love movies, good food, family and good friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you do?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>I am a filmmaker who got bitten by the film bug from the moment I made my first short film &#8220;Drive By&#8221; while still in graduate school studying public policy. I have been working in Hollywood for over 15 years, and for the last 8 years as a music video \/ commercial producer. I continue my goal of directing projects that I feel passionate about hoping to get many of my projects and a first feature film off the ground in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why are you proud to be of Taiwanese heritage?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Taiwanese is just who I am. It is what makes me see and experience the world as I do. So many wonderful experiences of living bi-culturally&#8230; and really tri-culturally because of the Japanese influence. It means I am linked to the amazing family and friends that surround me who share this common experience and history. I love getting to eat delicious foods, experience hot sticky summers with giant cockroaches and typhoons, speak a language that few in the world speak, and have a huge wonderful family!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does the  future of Taiwanese America look like to you?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>I look forward to seeing what parts of our culture we will be able to pass to our children, and they to their children. It will be a colorful future&#8230; one with children of mixed races, all I hope to be proud of where they came from. People will be in all different careers our parents would never have dreamed of. It will be a future of endless possibilities and no limitations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any  additional  information you would like to share? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>I love shaved ice!<\/p>\n<p>My website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zuzufilms.com\">www.zuzufilms.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently directed the &#8220;Write in Taiwanese&#8221; Census 2010 PSA video: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mcFLfw73O30\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mcFLfw73O30<\/a><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1004\" title=\"lin.karen3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lin.karen3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"lin.karen3\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lin.karen3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lin.karen3.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA Who are you? I am a 2nd generation Taiwanese American born in Seattle to my mother from Taipei and my father from Taoyuan. I have an amazing sister and an amazingly large &#8220;Proud to be Taiwanese&#8221; family &#8211;all 80 of us (and that&#8217;s just my immediate family!!). I love movies, good food, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}