‘Family Style’ by Alumna Marie Jamora '05 Streams on HBO Max

By
Felix Van Kann
June 24, 2021

Family Style, an Asian foodie series directed and produced by alumna Marie Jamora '05, is now streaming on HBO Max. The two-season show was developed with Warner Bros and Jamora directed all 20 episodes. Jamora recently made her television fiction debut as a director of an episode on the sixth season of Ava DuVernay’s Queen Sugar

Family Style is a show that brings foodies and their famous friends together to explore Asian food, with a steamy side of hot topic commentary.

Marie Jamora is a writer-director born and raised in Manila, Philippines. Her film Flip The Record won the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short at Urbanworld and her first feature, What Isn't There (Ang Nawawala), premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival. After graduating from Columbia University with an MFA in Film, she returned to Manila to direct music videos, commercials, and television. Jamora graduated from AFI's Directing Workshop for Women, the Warner Bros. Directors' Workshop, and the Lifetime Director Shadowing Program. She is a part of the Adjunct Directing Faculty at the American Film Institute.

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