https://www.juliusernestorea.com/interviews-and-articles daily 0.75 2026-03-30 https://www.juliusernestorea.com/interviews-and-articles/blog-post-title-two-t5my5-k4xmd-67jzh-5xzdm monthly 0.5 2026-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60402f9bfe0cc52d1cc38882/fbe14ef4-0eaf-4044-b534-b1d83894f841/AusinDeanAshford Interviews & Articles - The Maestro - Make it stand out Austin Dean Ashford performs “Library Play” at the 2024 New Roots Theatre Festival. Photo Credit: Kayleigh McCollum https://www.juliusernestorea.com/interviews-and-articles/the-critique-of-theatre-criticism monthly 0.5 2026-03-30 https://www.juliusernestorea.com/interviews-and-articles/blog-post-title-three-y3peb-4lwnz-5pkhf-7gkah monthly 0.5 2026-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60402f9bfe0cc52d1cc38882/1774882212507-QJERHEXESNUCJPFYYHYE/PC050654-Enhanced-NR-1.webp Interviews & Articles - A Full Circle - Make it stand out Filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist H.P. Mendoza sits during the Substrate Arts Winter 2023 Pop-up on Dec. 5, 2023 at Magic Theatre. Photo credit: Alejandro Ramos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60402f9bfe0cc52d1cc38882/43e5630e-5145-43f0-a3ec-cde31c056184/hpmendoza.webp Interviews & Articles - A Full Circle - Make it stand out H.P. Mendoza is a Filipino-American filmmaker best known for his work as star, screenwriter, composer and lyricist on “Colma: The Musical” (2006), as well as his art-house horror film, “I Am a Ghost” (2014) called “H.P. Mendoza’s objet d’art” by Dennis Harvey of Variety. After his directorial debut “Fruit Fly” (2009), David Lamble of the San Francisco Bay Area Reporter dubbed Mendoza “San Francisco’s queer cinema poet”. In 2012, Mendoza was inducted into Essential SF by the San Francisco Film Society which supported his Filipino-American dramedy “Bitter Melon” (2018) which placed on over a dozen Top 10 lists after its 2018 theatrical run and was hailed as one of the “20 Best Bay Area Films of the Decade” by the Mercury News. Along with his feature films, Mendoza is also known for his music and art installations including the touring screening of his experimental visual album, “Attack, Decay, Release,” winner of the 2022 Grand Jury Prize at the Tallgrass Film Festival, Stubbornly Independent. After world premiering at Tribeca 2023, Mendoza recently won the 2023 Best Director award at the Ouray International Film Festival for “The Secret Art of Human Flight” starring Academy Award nominee Paul Raci. The film also won Best Picture at the Eastern Oregon Film Festival. He is also currently touring different cities with the live version of “Attack, Decay, Release.” https://www.juliusernestorea.com/interviews-and-articles/a-spaceship-a-vessel-a-portal monthly 0.5 2026-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60402f9bfe0cc52d1cc38882/ba273816-8a23-44b9-9652-6da6e51493f3/R0010041-Enhanced-NR.webp Interviews & Articles - A spaceship, a vessel, a portal - Make it stand out Julius Rea and TNT Traysiekl co-creator Michael Arcega sing karaoke together in the mobile art piece on Dec. 5, 2023 at Fort Mason. Photo Credit: Alejandro Ramos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60402f9bfe0cc52d1cc38882/a4da0c15-beb6-46cb-a627-a79bb35b5c35/TNT_TMS_May2023-072.webp Interviews & Articles - A spaceship, a vessel, a portal - Make it stand out TNT Traysikel and co-creators Paolo Asuncion, Michael Arcega and Rachel Lastimosa. Photo Credit: Alvin Dizon. In 2018 Michael Arcega, Paolo Asuncion and Rachel Lastimosa began working together in SOMA Pilipinas Cultural and Heritage District. Michael and Paolo started the TNT Traysikel project with support from the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) grant. Rachel Lastimosa officially joined the team on their second SFAC grant to produce a short film called Lost and Found: TNT in America. In 2016, SOMA Pilipinas- Cultural Heritage District became officially sanctioned by the county of San Francisco and the State of California. The community came together to express their needs for visual markers in the landscape. In response, TNT Traysikel was conceived. The roaming sculpture would signal the presence of the Fil Am community. The project began with a grant from SFAC for a sculpture that holds space in the streets of SF. Our efforts rapidly expanded to include three concurrent projects, 1) TNT SideCaraoke, karaoke activations of joyful sing-alongs and 2) Lost and Found: TNT in America, a short film that centers an immigrant object searching for a home in America 3) TNT SideNotes, listening sessions to give community members space to share their stories. TNT Traysikel has been the anchor for many of our recent efforts. Our activities blur traditional practice and disciplines taking sculptural, spatial, relational, performative and cinematic form. For example, during a 4-month long Artist in Residence at Saint Joseph’s Arts Society (once home to the largest congregation of Fil Am Catholics in the US), we produced non-traditional “artist panels” called More Awareness Something Something (M.A.S.S.). We filmed over 60 experts on four Filipinx American topics- History, Visual Arts, Cuisine and Performing Arts. Every M.A.S.S. panel concluded with a TNT SideCaraoke sing-along. In five years, we have co-produced over 2 dozen events involving hundreds of culture producers who intersects visual, culinary, literary, and performing arts, as well as motorcyclists. TNT Traysikel events occur in museums, galleries, plazas, parks and sidewalks. We never charge the public and welcome all. Michael Arcega is an educator and visual artist working primarily in sculpture and installation. His research-based work is informed by History, geography, language and topics that deal with unbalanced power. Michael has degrees from the SFAI and Stanford University. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. He has received awards from Artadia, SFAC, Guggenheim Foundation among others. He lives and works in San Francisco as an Associate Professor of Art at SFSU. Paolo Asuncion grew up in Manila. He is the son of an actor and was immersed in the film industry early on. He began in corporate films that led to independent documentaries. As a motorcyclist, His work uses the subculture as a springboard to explore subjects like religion, craft, family legacy, death and sex trafficking. His films have garnered awards nationally and internationally. He lives and works in the San Francisco bay area. Rachel Lastimosa is an interdisciplinary artist, producer and performer, scoring for theater and film and has toured nationally and internationally. She has worked in the Bay Area as a community organizer, arts administrator and artist, supporting public art programming and performance. She founded AGASAN an expressive arts therapy program. 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