Welcome to your brand amplified, the podcast where we interview marketers, publicists, and

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I am super thrilled today to have Colombian American producer and director Deborah Korea with us today. Deborah, thank you for being on your brand amplified.

Thank you for this opportunity, Anika. It's exciting.

You know, I don't interview people in entertainment very often on the show, but what I love is everything that you bring in all of your background that makes you the essence of who you are and how you take that into filmmaking

so let's start at the very beginning. As we shall say,

Chrome being American, you live in the United States, but you didn't start out here.

Will you talk about your experience growing up? Yeah, I was raised and born in

Woodland, California in Northern California and my father, he was born in Medellian, but he's from

Bogota, Colombia.

And my mother and him met and fell in love.

She is a native Californian, and he moved to the states to get married,

he's been married, and then they have five kids and I was right in the middle.

So we ended up moving to Columbia for a few years and I feel like that was a big crossroads in my life because it was while I was still a kid and becoming a teenager and it was like at the height of the cartel drug wars in Colombia.

So we got to see firsthand what that was like.

And being an American in Colombia,

you feel like a fish out of water,

because you don't feel like you fit in culturally and but I'm half

Colombian. So it's like you know what you're navigating that as a kid you're trying to

understand like okay I understand that my father's from here and my family lives here

and I've spent time here but you know it's just

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