Start your sublight engines! Join the gang as they dive into Star Wars: Visions season 2. May the Force be with you and DON'T kriff it up!
Points of Interest: Wedge Antilles’ affiliate links, Chilean Pride flag, Jean Jacket imagery, Studio Ghibli and its consequences, please give Ahsoka brown contacts, Visions season 3 Rael Averross short, Scar Wars, the Avatar “franchise”, Across the Christo-Verse, Pryce Family Reunion, Meghan Trainor’s hit song “Wallace and Gromit”, the Try Guys try cutting off the Dark Head, “I am a Jedi, Dr. Han”, Darth Maul is a Christ-like figure, and Aau is a girlie in STEAM.
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- The specific cultural influences behind “Sith”, “Screecher’s Reach”, and “In the Stars,” including more info we didn’t know when recording about the indigenous Patagonian inspirations for “In the Stars.”
- More info on “In the Stars,” including background on how the specific animation style was achieved.
- Introductory information on the Selk’nam genocide, the eradication of an indigenous tribe in southern Chile and Argentina, in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago.
- A bit of background on the situation of recognition of indigenous tribes in Chile at the time “In the Stars” was being developed in 2022
-Info about “Los Colonos,” the Chilean film that just premiered at Cannes about the Selk’nam genocide (it is in Spanish, so you may need to translate it).
- The current situation with lithium mining in Chile and how it affects indigenous communities
- The co-production story behind “The Pit” and Lucasfilm’s Leandre Thomas working with D’ART Shtajio.
- Background on how Lucasfilm worked with the studios on Visions S2
- The unique backstory behind “I Am Your Mother,” (that we didn’t know when we recorded).
- The story behind the production and cultural influences of Au’s Song
- An in depth interview with the co-writers and directors of “Au’s Song”
- How Lucasfilm’s collab with South African studio Triggerfish for “Au’s Song” led to a long term Disney partnership and creation of an Afrofuturist animated anthology, Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire
- More about Kizazi Moto, coming to D+ soon
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