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The Mama Cho Show

The Mama Cho Show is an elevated sketch series that satirizes the Asian-American experience through a surrealist lens. Portlandia meets Key & Peele. Created by Quincy Cho
• WISHBONE directed by Chen Gu: A Korean immigrant mother's wish for a perfect daughter comes true with unexpected consequences.
• FAN DEATH directed by Hakim Hill: A sleepover guest's stay is suddenly plagued by an old Korean wives' tale.

  • Chen Gu
    Director
  • Hakim Hill
    Director
  • Quincy Cho
    Writer
  • Kaitlyn Tanimoto
    Writer
  • Ezra Justin Lee
    Producer
  • Sadé Sellers
    Producer
  • Fletch Power
    Producer
  • Quincy Cho
    Producer
  • Quincy Cho
    Key Cast
    "Apple"
  • Ai Yoshihara
    Key Cast
    "Mama Cho"
  • Donzell Lewis
    Key Cast
    "Seb"
  • Project Type:
    Television, Web / New Media
  • Genres:
    comedy, horror, sketch, genre, surrealism
  • Runtime:
    11 minutes 15 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    United States, United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States, United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Catalyst Content Festival

    Official Selection
  • LA Web Fest

    Nominated for Best Sketch Show
Director Biography - Chen Gu, Hakim Hill

CHEN GU was born in Chengdu, China and grew up in Dallas, Texas. She has an intense love for story-telling in any medium, whether 35 mm film or grocery lists. Chen was a Sundance/Youtube New Voices fellow in 2019 and a writer on the Snapchat short form show Two Sides: Unfaithful, which was nominated for a 2022 NAACP Image award for best short form series. Her short films have screened at the New Orleans Film Festival and Sidewalk Film Festival, winning a jury prize at the 2016 NOFF. Besides filmmaking and writing, she tutors high school students in Los Angeles, making her privy to the powers of senioritis, helicopter parents, and second-gen immigrant kid blues.

HAKIM HILL's Trinidadian mother named him purposefully so that he wouldn't need a nickname. So to his mother's dismay, he started going by Kimo when he began performing and teaching poetry in Boston. One name just sounded cooler. Like Seal.
While working in higher education, he wrote, directed, and helped produce a couple of award-winning horror and drama short films that revolved around racial trauma, using them to workshop college students.
Upon moving to Los Angeles, Kimo participated in the Writer's Mob auxiliary of Leah Daniels-Butler and Henry Butler's production company 1oneninety5 Productions before placing in 2020-21 NBC's Writers on the Verge and 2022 Yes And... Laughter Lab. He is the Staff Writer for Peacock's "HYSTERIA" season one.

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Director Statement

CREATOR STATEMENT - QUINCY CHO
Growing up Korean American felt like living in a fun house. As a first-gen kid, I had immigrant parents who did not understand the cultural norms, which gave me a lot of material to work with. I love sketch because it’s given me an avenue to explore some of the more interesting concepts, characters, or situations that I’ve encountered and lived through. My show, The Mama Cho Show, explores the current zeitgeist through a Korean-American, millennial, bi lens, the intersectionality of which provides rich and fertile ground to create something fun, fresh, and unexpected. The genre lens of the series will bring new takes on the familiar. I am thrilled to be sharing this project with you and to be at the forefront of something new, something that has yet to be seen.