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between Roger and James Deacons and a guest.

We never know where the conversation will take us, so listen in and see where it goes.

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Today, we're speaking with a cinematographer.

Her credits include Life in a Year, Palm Springs, and the TV series Brothers.

We're pleased to welcome, Quen Tran. Quen, thank you for doing this.

Yeah, welcome. Oh, my gosh. This is an honor and a dream and a pleasure. Thank you for having me.

We'd like to start with the question, how did you get to where you are today? Were you a kid

that always thought of things in frames, or did you decide that you were going to be

a vet and then find this later? What's your story?

The latter. It was not a vet. It was a doctor. I think growing up Asian, as you may know,

for many stereotypes, you know, it's like, you're going to be a doctor or you're going to be a teacher or you're going to, you know, have a real profession. And so that was kind of my path in the beginning. My oldest have five siblings. They're all not in the industry. I'm the black sheep in the family, but my oldest sister was sending to be a doctor.

My next older sister is a teacher.

And then when it came down to me, I was like, what do I do?

I guess I'll follow in the footsteps of my oldest sister, who I'm very close with.

And I'll just be a doctor, no big deal.

And so I was pre-med at

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