TG Geeks Webcast Episode 357

The Two Gay Geeks have a chat with our good friend and collaborator, Hamish Downie. Hamish has directed a new film, Matcha and Vanilla which is releasing this week on the Gay Streaming Service, GagaOOLala. Hamish fils us in on what he has been doing since we last spoke with him and what he has coming up. Have a listen and we hope you enjoy this as much as we did.<br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />About Hamish Downie<br /><br />Hamish Downie is an Australian LGBT filmmaker and producer based in Osaka, Japan. After teaming up with Paul Leeming and directing some music videos for world music diva, Robyn Loau, he made his first short film, Silence, which did well on the festival circuit in Europe. Buoyed by that success, he ventured out to make his first feature film, Matcha & Vanilla which reunites the creative team behind Silence.<br /><br />Hamish hopes to continue to make films that have a multi-cultural focus, and in the future would like to make an animated series. For his next project, he hopes to make a musical<br />web series.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />About Matcha and Vanilla<br /><br /><br /><br />☀☀☀<br /><br /><br />Yuki and Ai are a long-term lesbian couple living in the closet in Japan's traditional society. When Yuki is diagnosed with terminal cancer, they must fight against their family, the hospital, and society in order to stay together until the end.<br /><br />Director's Statement<br /><br />Fear is one of my biggest muses. The Never Let You Down music video was about the time I was getting stalked by a fan. An American Piano was my cry for world peace at a time that felt like we were going to have another world war. And Silence was about an abusive relationship I was in. Now, with my debut feature film, Matcha & Vanilla I'm tackling both love and fear. I've been in a long-term relationship for a while and moved to Osaka to be closer with this person. Things are going well, although we don't have a lot of money.<br />My biggest fear is that on