Special Report: Mye Hoang on 25 Cats from Qatar (2025)
From The Projection Booth Podcast by Weirding Way Media
May 5, 2026 · 45 min · Season 1 · Episode 713
About this episode
Filmmaker Mye Hoang discusses her career and latest documentary, 25 Cats from Qatar, exploring themes of identity and community through an animal rescue story.
From indie narratives to deeply personal documentaries, filmmaker Mye Hoang has built a career around stories about identity, community, and unexpected connections. On this episode of *The Projection Booth*, Mike sits down with Hoang to trace her creative journey—from her early work to her breakout documentary Cat Daddies—before diving into her latest film, 25 Cats from Qatar. The new documentary follows an extraordinary rescue effort as a network of volunteers races to save stray cats living on the streets of Doha, where the feline population has spiraled into crisis. What begins as an uplifting animal rescue story quickly reveals larger issues involving migration, class, labor, and global responsibility. Hoang discusses balancing advocacy with storytelling, capturing high-stakes rescue missions on camera, and why the film resonates far beyond cat lovers. The conversation also highlights the film’s screening at the Arab American Film Festival at Cinema Detroit, where audiences can catch the film and a post-screening discussion with Hoang and subject Katy McHugh. It'll be sure to be lively conversation about documentary filmmaking, compassion, and the surprising ways a film about…
People in this episode
Host: Mike
Guest: Mye Hoang
Topics covered
- documentary filmmaking
- animal rescue
- identity
- community
- migration
- class
- global responsibility
Keywords
- Mye Hoang
- 25 Cats from Qatar
- documentary
- animal rescue
- identity
- community
- migration
- class
- global responsibility
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Arab American Film Festival
Books & works: Cat Daddies, 25 Cats from Qatar
Places: Doha
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