Pak Castillo and Dania Denise on "Yvonne Speaks" at the 2024 Burbank International Film Festival opening night

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Actors Pak Castillo and Dania Denise interview on the red carpet at the Burbank International Film Festival opening night world premiere of "Yvonne Speaks" on Wednesday, September 25, 2024, at Burbank AMC 16 Theaters in Burbank, California, USA. Reporting by Athenna Crosby (@athennacrosby).
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00:00Joining me are some of the artists from Yvonne Speaks. Tell us a little bit about the film.

00:06What's the genesis of the film? What can audiences expect when they watch?

00:10It is a short film ensemble comedy, and it revolves around a married couple, Yvonne and

00:14Jeff. Jeff works at a company, he's about to get a promotion, big, big networking event

00:18coming up, and his wife, Yvonne, is a voiceover artist, and she loves accents, and just is

00:23really eccentric. But she also suffers from extreme crippling social anxiety. So what

00:27happens when you bring someone like that to your work job party? Hilarity ensues.

00:32Hilarity ensues. What do you think audiences are going to feel once they walk out of that

00:35theater?

00:36Hopefully a little relatability. I think a lot of us suffer, for the most part, like

00:39some type of social anxiety. So it's good to see that there's some characters over there

00:44that are having a really rough time, but getting it together still, or holding it together

00:48as much as they possibly can.

00:50Talk to me a little bit more about social anxiety. Is this a topic that we're talking

00:54about enough in the entertainment industry?

00:57I think people are talking about it enough, but I don't know that the conversations are

01:02taking place in the right rooms where real change can be affected. It's one thing when

01:05we're here talking about it, but a lot of the movers and shakers who really have the

01:09ability to influence how things are handled and how movements are made, they're still

01:13kind of doing their own thing. So we really need to just continue to have these talks

01:17and have films that spotlight it, whether it's a comedy or a drama, but these are all

01:21things, like Pac said, are relatable. So the more people see themselves in our films,

01:25the more we can really get the message to resonate, and I think eventually we're going

01:28to get to the ears that really need to hear it.

01:30What do you have to add about that importance of representation for all different kinds

01:33of things on the screen?

01:35So I would say I'm glad that we're gravitating away from the experts of being social, the

01:42masculine, the ones that are out there and that can just be so debonair all the time.

01:48This one over here, I think the message that the majority of the movies that are coming

01:51out now are showing at least a little bit of what it looks like in real situations,

01:56real social situations, so people can actually relate to it. I think that's where we should

02:00go with it, and that's where it's actually heading, I think.

02:03Well, I'd love to hear that, and congratulations to the both of you on your short premiering

02:07here at the Burbank Film Festival. Hope you enjoy the festival.

02:11Thank you. Thanks for having us.

02:12Appreciate it.

Pak Castillo and Dania Denise on "Yvonne Speaks" at the 2024 Burbank International Film Festival opening night

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