Sound Design, Re-recording, and Mixing for “SO TO SPEAK (2024),” a film by Celine Parreñas Shimizu

Film’s Official Website: https://www.sotospeakfilm.com/

SO TO SPEAK Trailer

SO TO SPEAK follows a Filipina American student who uses art to encourage new sexualities for herself and other Asian American women. By making a "house of sexuality," she creates the art of sex, and recognizes the traumas and joys of brown girlhood.

A Filipina American college student uses art to encourage new sexualities for herself and other Asian American women. In class with a powerful professor, Morena revisits her childhood as she experiences the stirrings of desire in coming of age. By making a “house of her sexuality,” she claims her voice and her education in creating the art of sex, recognizing the traumas and joys of brown girlhood. And realizes sexuality as a site of passion, power, politics, and pleasure. She refutes, refuses and rebuts how her sexuality intertwines with servility and possession by others so as to forge different sexual futures, freedoms and autonomies.

— text from https://www.sotospeakfilm.com/

About the Director:

Celine Parreñas Shimizu is Dean of the Arts and Distinguished Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Beyond seeking the widest distribution to deploy the power of cinema to undo historical harm, amplify unheard perspectives, and create new narratives, the film provides field training for students in the Arts. Trained by professionals, the film enables career-making opportunities for students.