Creating Art to Elevate Others with Filmmaker, Roye Okupe

Listen Hunnay with Jeannie Mai

Studio71

Comedy, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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YouNeek Studios founder and renowned filmmaker, Roye Okupe comes onto the show to chat with Jeannie about how he began a career in comics and animation (which led him to creating Malaika Warrior Queen), how he funded his own company, and why it's important to use your work to elevate the work of others. Roye will also discuss his perspective on representation in comics and animation and how using Kickstarter has helped shape the way he's made his art. YouNeekStudios.com Instagram.com/YouNeekStudios Visit ritual.com/MAI to get 10% off during your first three months To get 20% off your purchase of $75 or more INCLUDING sale items, go to modcloth.com and enter code jeannie at checkout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Listen honey, listen honey, listen honey.
0:03.0	Listen honey, listen honey.
0:05.0	Listen honey, hey everybody.
0:09.0	I hope you're having a great week.
0:11.0	I know I am.
0:12.0	I've been looking so forward to shooting these podcasts because I
0:15.0	meet such amazing interesting people and today I'm tapping into the world of
0:20.0	gosh comics filmmaking and and just the unique creativity to start your own company.
0:26.7	I'm so excited to speak to Roy Acupe who is on the line with me now.
0:30.4	What's up Roy?
0:31.8	Hey, how you doing? It's it's pleasure to be here. Me too
0:35.7	thanks so much for joining me Roy so you have a crazy career journey already
0:41.4	you're an award-winning filmmaker you're an author you're a speaker you're an entrepreneur
0:45.4	you have passion for comics and animation
0:48.0	which led you to founding unique studios in 2012.
0:52.7	And by the way, you, I mean,
0:55.8	this led you to a diverse library of superheroes.
0:59.6	And the way that you went about it, too,
1:01.3	getting the funding to start your own company is
1:04.2	incredible I mean you've produced and directed several animated productions
1:08.7	you've written the award-winning and critically acclaimed to Malika, the Warrior Queen animated short,
1:14.6	all of this craziness,
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