Let’s Talk About Creating Queer TV with Laura Rivas and Rukshan Then

Listen in on a great conversation with two amazing, QPOC Creatives in the Film/TV industry, Laura Rivas (executive producer/director) and Rukshan Then (writer/producer) as they share a little bit of fun facts and more about their new series, "Tiny Laughs" a digital series now streaming on Revry TV (the Netflix of Queer content).  Tiny Laughs When a queer Latina architect meets a struggling Asian comic at an improv class, their instant sparks sends them on humorous and heartwarming journey through the city of dreams. https://revry.tv/channel/tiny-laughs/ Rukshan Bio - Rukshan spent his formative years in San Fernando Valley within a very multi-cultural community. As the child of immigrants he learned from the cultures around him. There, he refined his version of “California Cool” by absorbing reruns of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air and putting Tapatio on everything. He attended the University of California, Irvine as a Pre-Med student. Upon graduating he worked in the biopharmaceutical industry while working on his creative projects. The stories he had gathered from his upbringing and the intersection of influences that defined his childhood were waiting to be told. After two years he transitioned into the world of television and has never looked back. He now puts Sriracha on everything. Laura Bio - Who would’ve thought a 1980 Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am Bandit would be the reason why my family lives in the U.S. today. My father came to pick up the Firebird and decided to stay in the land of the free, followed shortly by my mom, my sister and I a year after. Our first year in America was in my uncle’s living room in the city of Compton. I remember looking out the second floor living room window Christmas day and seeing a drunk Santa Claus shooting his gun in the air shouting a cheerful “Merry Christmas Motherfuckers.” We settled down in the backhouse of Mexican Santeria worshippers for the next fourteen years. On my tenth birthday my mother bought me a Sony Mini DVD camcorder to capture the two scarlet macaws, five Chihuahuas, four chickens and a cat that roamed freely in our front yard. From that day forward, I was hooked on capturing the good, the bad, and craziness of life through the lens of a camera and I haven’t looked back since. Check out the Tiny Laughs playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/7yVJ5gyuXHSnIUXuQpyiOg