Interview:
Sarah Kambe Holland,
writer/director,
"Egghead and Twinkie"
An expansion of her 2019 short comedy of the title, Austin-based writer/director Sarah Kambe Holland’s Egghead and Twinkie finds two friends undertaking a road trip from Orlando to Dallas in the weeks before one of them heads to college. Twinkie, a 17-year-old Chinese-American aspiring animator, does not receive the support she hoped she would have when she comes out as a lesbian to her adoptive parents. The news also comes as a surprise to Twinkie’s platonic male bestie Egghead, who has long had a crush on Twinkie and had wanted to take their friendship to the next level before he leaves for college. Nevertheless, the somewhat confused Egghead agrees to drive Twinkie to Dallas so she can visit an anime production studio. Only Egghead does not know that Twinkie—upset about the negative reaction to her coming out—wants to go to Dallas so she can meet her Instagram crush for the first time in person. The cast is led by Louis Tomeo as Egghead and Sabrina Jieafa as Twinkie, whose journey of self-discovery sees her attempt to take ownership of the derogatory nickname given to her by Asian-American teenage girls because her adoptive parents are white. Egghead and Twinkie screens during the Austin Film Festival at 9:45 p.m. Oct. 26 at the Galaxy Theatres Austin and at 7 p.m. Nov. 1 at the Rollins Theatre at the Long Center for Performing Arts. The Austin-based Sarah Kambe Holland, who was born in Japan and identifies as queer, shot her feature-length directorial debut Egghead and Twinkie in Florida. Aired: Oct. 25, 2023 Web sites: https://sarahkambeholland.com/ https://2023austinfilmfestival.sched.com/ http://www.austinfilmfestival.com/ https://www.facebook.com/AustinFilmFestival |
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