This week on OC In Focus, Karyn Bower and Alena Hernandez interview student filmmaker Jamal Brown to discuss hip hop culture, the importance of mental health as filmmaker and actor, the challenges of student filmmaking, and more. Brown wrote, starred, edited, wrote and performed the music for his short film, Trouble in the Culture, which was screened at the 2022 Newport Beach Film Festival.

Orange County is home to the second largest population of Iranians in the United States. Hengameh Abraham is the Iranian Outreach Chair for the Republican party of Orange County, she immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 14 and this week she joins Karyn Bower and Negar Vahabi to talk about her own encounter with the morality police before leaving Iran at age 14, how the Iranian Revolution in 1979 is connected to the 2022 protests that began after the death of Mahsa Amini, why this is different from the protests in 2009 and the Green Movement, and more.