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Nifty news alert!

A couple weeks ago the lovely people who work at YouTube reached out to me and asked if I’d be “okay with it” if they screened a clip from I Ship It at the Sundance Film Festival before the narrative shorts program and would I like to go to their Sundance filmmakers reception? Hahaha #weeping, I laugh-cried, thinking it was a cruel spambot joke and then looked up their e-mail addresses and realized wait whatWHATWHAT they were really real.

For those of you who might not know, the Sundance Institute is arguably one of the pillars of the indie film industry in the USA/world, and it’s the not-so-secret dream of many a young film student/me to one day screen there as an official selection.

They’ll be screening a clip of I Ship It as part of a presentation by YouTube before the official narrative shorts premiere, highlighting work they feel is representative of the potential for indie film on YouTube. I’m told it may also be showing before other screenings of the narrative shorts program throughout the festival as YouTube is partnering with the Sundance shorts fest, so if you happen to be attending Sundance this year and spot our clip, please please let me know! In any case, it will for sure be showing on premiere night January 22nd at 8:30pm in the Egyptian Theater. I’ll also be in Park City from January 22nd - 27th for my first ever Sundance experience, and I’m super excited. If you’re going/have gone in the past, lemme know what to expect/what to wear!

So yay! Not quite an official Sundance selection, but I’m incredibly proud of our team anyway. We are a scrappy bunch of indie filmmakers and our work made it to a screen at Sundance and that is not a shabby way to kick off 2015.

Much love,

Yulin Kuang youtube.com/yulinisworking

#I'M! SO! HAPPY! FOR! YULIN!!!!!! GUYS!!!! #EXCITEMENTTT #clearly I am not the best at expression and can thus only yeLL!! MY CURRENT EMOTIONAL STATUS!!! WITH LOTS OF EXCLAMATION POINTS!! #type: text #type: update #con: I ship it

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Busted out some dance moves at the fashion vid shoot yesterday, because that’s what flowy skirts demand.

#petition for emkay to just make a dance video in which she shows off all her dance-yness #the only time I've seen her properly dance is that music video and that was like a split second of dancing #LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS FASHION VID LIKE?? FLOWY SKIRTS YES PLEASE #they come right after comfy jumpers and boots (and layered shirts) in my book #no one cares about my (lack of) fashion sense yes yes ik #con: Instagram #type: photo

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Shooting January fashion vid today!

#what ARE YOU #I don't believe you nope #faces aren't real #what version of Photoshop guys come on tell us #ugh I don't like liking faces so much why #con: Instagram #type: photo #2015 FASHION VIDEO HEEEYY

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📷: @higgaroni

#you look younger than I do #and I'm literally a freshman #what the hecks #spill where is this fountain of youth you're hiding emkay go on #con: Instagram #type: photo #loOK EVEN THE LEAVES ARE ALL LIVELY AND SPIRALING AROUND HER BC ~YOUTH #alright alright I'll show myself out thanks

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On our way to the people’s choice awards with @marissacuevas!

#you look like an angel alrigHT #con: Instagram #type: photo

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I Ship It | Behind the Scenes

From start to finish, this is how we made I Ship It happen! I’m also releasing a deleted scene, which I’ll make a commentary post about at some point… eventually. 

In case you missed it… 

I Ship It is a short film about Zoe, a girl going through a bad break up who decides to take down her ex-boyfriend in a wizard rock battle of the bands.

Hope you enjoy it!

Much love,

Yulin Kuang writer | director | filmmaker youtube.com/yulinisworking

#boy oh boy this little film means a v big much to me #and this behind the scenes is just really super lovely i'm so happy about it #look at yulin look at how awesome look at how great LOOK #yulin is my ladyspiration she's THE goal #con: i ship it #type: video

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#[xander harris voice] yoU'RE THE CUTEST OF THE CUTIES WITH YOUR LIPS AS RED AS RUBIES #goddammit stop #type: gif #type: set #con: vlogs

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Modern Hamlet AU: Mary Kate Wiles as Ophelia

None of these gifs are mine.

#doN'T FRACKIN DO THIS TO ME WHA T WHA TIS WRONG WIT YOU #W HY #im furious at this au i am Furious #gross the english major appears again #oh crying again too alright #also look emmsroberts gifs!!! aka 10-frame prettiness all around #con: kitr #con: aus #type: gif #type: set

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Back in the recording studio… #muzzledthemusical is approaching!

#MUZZLEDDDD #IM MUZZ-CITED #no wait that sounds like I'm citing muzzled or something #I tried so hard to be remotely clever guys #LOOK AT THE CUTE FACE IGNORE THE ALWAYS POINTLESS TAGGING #type: photo #con: Instagram #con: muzzled

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MARY KATE WILES || FASHION VIDEOS || 2 0 1 4

#yesy yes yessss #was gonna make something like this but i'm so glad you have because it's stunningggg #and so is mk goshhh #this is super super super gorgeous i am in ove with it #yay fashion videos moRE OF THESE ALWAYS #type: set #type: gif #con: vlogs #con: fashion

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[x] 2014 has been all sorts of wacky to you, Emkay. And you’ve kinda been all sorts of awesome to us. Here’s to another super swell one!

Congrats on the $1000+ milestone at Patreon!

#i haven't been spending as much in general #and i thought what better way to mark the beginning of 2015 than by pledging the last $50-ish dollars needed to reach $1000 #congrats on the milestone! i'm super glad i got to be the one to nudge that number up like that ;) #mary kate wiles #type: set #type: gif #thank you for a spectacular year of awesome work (with the shipwrecked crew of awesome as well as the coolbeans vlogs and such) #you keep doing you please

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📷: @anita.antonia 💄: @bepinkriches

#THE SEA FAIRY AND THEIR DEMIGOD AND WITCH COMPANIONS RETURNNN #I think I like that idea too much goshhh #con: Instagram #con: shoot #type: photo

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LOVE the shots from this shoot I did for @bepinkriches (makeup) with @anita.antonia (📷)!

#mk as a wild quiet sea fairy #(yes sea fairy no I do not mean mermaid shh she's a sEA FAIRY) #AN AGENDER ADOLESCENT SEA FAIRY WHO'S DETERMINED TO KNOW /EVERYTHING/ BC 'EVERYTHING'S WORTH KNOWING' #that's their motto everything's worth knowing and i'm immortal so what the heck? #and they go on ~adventures on earth and in water and even in the sky if their pegasus friends aren't busy #and their two accidental companions are an inexperienced and ambitious-but-lazy witch and a domesticated heartbroken demigod #a comedic fantasy that never takes itself seriously but gives it all its got #...i think the storytime in the tags on mk photoshoots will be a continuous thing now sorry guys #con: shoot #type: photo #con: instagram

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Close enough, Sinea-Sean.

#shipwrecked comedy #sean persaud #i'm a Jerk i'm so sorryyy #it was just too good to not do #y a k n o w? #goddammit spacing out words is exhausting why is it even a thing?? #what is this offering hand gesture you've got going sean what #honorable mentions: sinead enjoying the heck out of her brother's ridiculousness and inevitable embarrassment #the ukelele that wasn't played properly once for the length of the video #and the cute as heck santa hat that miRACULOUSLY REMAINED ON HIS HEAD FOR THE WHOLE THING #i'm impressed i won't lie #(guys let's all remember the time i said this is technically an mk blog but REALLY it's an mk and shipwrecked blog i mean??)

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Season’s greetings!

#every. christmas. #EVERY. CHRISTMAS. #i lov e iT #con: instagram #type: photo

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In which the wonderful ms. Mary Kate Wiles sums up everything that it is to try and make it as an actor in less than 7 minutes. A must watch for any aspiring artist.

#d'you know what one of my favorite things about mk ever? #some people will instantly brush her off as dumb but here ya go straight A's and two degrees #her favorite bands are fob and the decemberists and she's the cheeriest person you'll meet #she's an anxious person but also probably the most personable of ever and???? #seriously if you don't think the self-contradictions all over this awesomesauce lady #that would normally either make a person bitter or not too well liked but shE MAKES THEM WORK #aren't some of the coolsiest things then idk #idk dude i think she just had me at 'tWO USELESS DEGREES' bc guess who's college career is the literal same #emo have-beens who just like studying and life too much to be proper emo waddup #con: vlogs #type: video

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Actress Mary Kate Wiles (The Lizzie Bennet Diaries). Valerie Chiang. November 2014.

#nvm it's an official shoot #goshhh she looks so loveLY #con: shoot #type: photo