Thank you for joining us for another round of Coffee with a Queen! Hope you enjoyed this opportunity to meet other folks from the AQIA community, either virtually or in-person!
Next Sign-Up: TBD
Hey Queens!! We hope you enjoyed attending our first launch of our Keeping it Reel club to watch movies together in Los Angeles! If you couldn’t make it this time, we can’t wait to see you at our next AQIA event.
Next Sign-Up: TBD
Hey Queens!! We hope you enjoyed attending our Friendship Day Mixer to celebrate Friendship Day in Los Angeles! If you couldn’t make it this time, we can’t wait to see you at our next AQIA event.
Next Sign-Up: TBD
We hope you enjoyed our last panel of our amazing AAPI month series: Learning to Lead in Animation!
Featured:
Revathi Suchita Kotni, Production Manager
Leslie Park, Director
Rabia Abedin, Sr. Manager, Early Career Programs & Diversity Outreach
We hope you enjoyed our last panel for our ongoing AAPI month series: Growing in Production!
Featured:
Jina Lee, Production Coordinator
Julia Ramen, Feature Production Coordinator
We hope you enjoyed our last panel for our ongoing AAPI month series: Writing in Animation!
Featured:
Liz Chun, Freelance Writer
Ami Boghani, Writer
Shruthi Mothur, Writer
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We hope you enjoyed our last panel for our ongoing AAPI month series: Breaking into Animation & Gaming!
Featured:
Amanda Jayapurna, Lighting Artist
Haemi Hong, Feature Final Layout Artist
Katie Dizon, Production Assistant
Thank you for joining us for a conversation with
Angela Sung!
Featured:
Angela Sung, Visual Development Artist
Thank you for joining us for another round of Coffee with a Queen! Hope you enjoyed this opportunity to meet other folks from the AQIA community, either virtually or in-person!
Next Sign-Up: August 28, 2023
Thank you for joining us for a conversation with
Rhea Dadoo!
Featured:
Rhea Dadoo, Episodic Director
Thank you for joining us for another round of Coffee with a Queen! Hope you enjoyed this opportunity to meet other folks from the AQIA community, either virtually or in-person! Next AQIA Event: TBD
Next Sign-Up: April 4, 2023
Thank you for joining us for a conversation with
Jahnvi Shah!
Featured:
Jahnvi Shah, Production Coordinator
Thank you for attedning our first Virtual Escape Room Mixer! Hope you enjoyed this opportunity to meet other folks from the AQIA community virtually.
Thank you for joining us for a conversation with
Soyun Park!
Featured:
Soyun Park, Visual Development Artist
Thank you for joining us for another round of Coffee with a Queen! Hope you enjoyed this opportunity to meet other folks from the AQIA community, either virtually or in-person! Next AQIA Event: TBD
Next AQIA Event: March 7, 2023
We hope you enjoyed our last panel for our ongoing New Year's series: Building Connections Virtually!
Featured:
Maansi Sunkara, Production Coordinator
We hope you enjoyed our last panel for our ongoing New Year's series: Crafting a Resume an Cover Letter!
Featured:
Lisa Qingyi Liu, Character Rigger
Julie Hang, Pokemon TCG Illustrator
Mahima Pundir, Character TD Artist
Chelsea Ortega, Story Trainee
We hope you enjoyed our last panel for our ongoing New Year's series: Crafting a Resume and Cover Letter!
Featured:
Maansi Sunkara, Production Coordinator
Thank you so much for attending our first In-Person Panel! We hope your enjoyed hearing our conversation with our Asian Queen Leadership to hear all about their journeys throughout the industry.
Thank you for joining us for a conversation with Princess Bizares!
Featured:
Princess Bizares, Background Painter & Color Designer
We hope you enjoyed joining us in our 'Draw and Hang' session with Kaitlyn Chen!
Featured:
Kaitlyn Chen, Background Painter, Titmouse
We hope you enjoyed our kick-off of our 'Draw and Hang' sessions with Sihn Nguyen.
Featured:
Sinh Nguyen, Prop Designer, Invincible
To celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May, we're so excited to have spotlighted incredible Asian Queens in the industry in our new series "Owning the Narrative".
We hope you enjoyed this series of panels with industry professionals discussing various parts of the production pipeline.
Thank you for joining us at our AQIA mixers!
Locations:
Los Angeles
New York
San Francisco
Hey Queens! We, thank you, for attending another round of Coffee with a Queen. We hope you enjoyed an opportunity to meet other folks from the AQIA community, either virtually or in-person.
We hope to see you the next time!
Thank you for attending our online mixer to highlight and uplift our underrepresented gender communities in the industry.
We hope your enjoyed our kick start in celebrating this month and our introduction of our Queens who help foster the AQIA community.
Thank you for joining us this weekend for our 2nd Palentine's Party!
We hope you enjoyed this open event to ALL students & industry professionals (even if you're not Asian or a Queen!) Thank you for being with us for this fun occasion!
Thank you for joining us for another round of Coffee with a Queen! Hope you enjoyed this opportunity to meet other folks from the AQIA community, either virtually or in-person!
Next Sign-Up: April 8th, 2022.
AQIA is here to help you start your journey! Thank you for joining us for our second series where we learned from industry professionals on how they broke in, built connections, and stood out in applications.
We hope you enjoyed our series!
Hi Queens! Thank you for attending another round of Coffee with a Queen. We hope you enjoyed this opportunity to meet other folks from the AQIA community, either virtually or in-person.
Next Sign-Up: January 28th, 2022
We, thank you, for attending our panel ‘Breaking into Stop Motion’! Moderated by Fu Yang and Sanisha Agarwal.
Featured:
Ke Yang, Visual Development Artist
Mee Huh, 2D Frelancer and Animation Assistant
Nicole Tan, Jr. CG Modeler
Yu Yu, Director
Missed The Panel Or Want To Rewatch? Watch Here!
Thank you for joining the start of our spooky season in our community Discord to draw, make some friends and get ready for Halloween!
Hey Queens! We hope you enjoyed another round of Coffee with a Queen. This is an opportunity to meet other folks from the AQIA community, either virtually or in-person.
Join Us Next Time: November 6th, 2021
Thank you for joining our Trivia Night! Hope you enjoyed meeting all of our new community members, and of course old friends, again!
Thank you for joining our first Clubhouse event! We hope you enjoyed our conversation about Indie Filmmaking!
Featured:
Amy Kuo, Co-Founder of Anamon Studios and Producer of Let’s Eat
Eun Bi Chang, Co-Producer and Director of Paper City
Fu Yang, Director of TellTale
Thank you for joining AQIA to celebrate Pride Month. We hoped you enjoyed learning about Sabrina Cotugno's journey and how they grew as a storyteller.
Featured:
Sabrina Cotugno, Director, Writer, & Storyboard Artist
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Thank you for joining the third event, ‘Executive Producing & Directing in Animation’ of the "Asian Queen Leading in Animation" series in collaboration with Rise Up Animation!
Featured:
Kataneh Vahdani, Director/Creator
Kristine Sangco, Writer/Co-EP
Alyce Tzue, Director
Thank you for attending the second event, ‘Producing in Animation’ of the "Asian Queen Leading in Animation" series in collaboration with Rise Up Animation.
Featured:
Jaena St Ana, Line Producer
Jess Chandra, Associate Producer
Thank you for joining us in our first event, ’Directing in Animation’ as part of the "Asian Queen Leading in Animation" series in collaboration with Rise Up Animation.
Featured:
Suzi Yoonessi, Director, Walt Disney Animation Studios
Josie Trinidad, Director, Walt Disney Animation Studios
Thank you for joining us for another amazing VFX event! Hope you enjoyed learning about these amazing women in VFX and their journey, specialization, and leadership.
Featured:
Alyssa Zarate, Matte Painting & Environment Supervisor
Christine Liu, Lead FX Technical Director
Gigi Ng, VFX Supervisor
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Thank you for joining AQIA drawing alongside Anoosha Syed, an award-winning illustrator and character designer for animation.
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Thank you for joining AQIA in celebrating Women's History Month! We hope you enjoyed our talk with Charmaine Chan about her journey, career, and inspiration to create her video series, "Women in Visual Effects”.
Featured:
Charmaine Chan, Lead Compositor, Industrical Light & Magic
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Thank you for joining our conversation, Breaking into Development in Animation!
Featured:
Andi Hester, Script Coordinator
Grace Gao, Creative Development Assistant
Mira Takamura, Creative Assistant
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Thank you for joining our first Palenetine’s Party! We hope you enjoyed grabbing some chocolate, your favorite plushie, and playing our fun Valentine's day themed games!
We hope you enjoyed joining AQIA for our FIRST workshop series as we dive into the animation production-verse!
Panels:
A Starter Pack For Breaking Into The Animation Industry
Tips For Crafting Your Resume & Internship Applications
Crash Course Into Animation Production Management
We hope you enjoyed our collaboration panel with DreamWorks Animation and Asian Pacific Americans Unit.
Interns Featured:
Maansi Sukara, DreamWorks TV Production
Ahdenae Khodaverdian, DreamWorks Feature Production
Gina Liu, DreamWorks TV Production
Thank you for joining our Matcha Meet event, open to ALL students & industry professionals (even if you're not Asian or a Queen!).
Thank you for joining us in our panel, Journey to Look Development!
Featured:
Erica Liu, Look Development Artist
Chaiwon Kim, Look Development Artist
Sonali Dutta, Character Artist - Materials
Vista Vinnakota, Technical Director
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Thank you for joining us in our panel, Computer Science and Engineering in Animation!
Featured:
Shweta Viswanathan, Associate Technical Supervisor
Laura Kwan, General TD
Archana Senthilkumar, General TD
Thank you for joining us in our panel, The Art and Journey of a Character FX Artist. Hope you enjoyed learning about these Character FX artists’ journeys!
Featured:
Amy Thomas, Senior Creature TD
Pramita Mukherjee, Senior CFX
Mira Arte, Creature FX TD
Missed The Panel or Want To Rewatch? https://youtu.be/Di7opZsIXf4
