Returning to The Theatre Centre after two-years of sold-out runs, Shakespeare BASH’d is set to tackle one of the Bard’s most challenging and controversial plays: The Merchant of Venice.
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Written and directed by Evelyn Lorena, Gabriela follows a young undocumented Guatemalan woman who dreams of joining a country club swim team in the American South. Despite her single-minded determination, she is soon confronted by her overprotective mother’s fears, the limitations imposed by her economic and legal status, and her own self-judgment.
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The highly anticipated docu-comedy short film 15 Ways My Dad Almost Died, directed by award- winning filmmaker Sura Mallouh and written by Filipina Dora-nominated comedian Alia Rasul.
The short film also had its world premiere at the 2024 Reel Asian Film Festival and is now available for streaming on CBC Gem and YouTube, bringing this heartfelt, humourous and important story to audiences across Canada.
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Graham Isador is losing his vision due to a degenerative eye disease. But because there are no visual identifiers for the condition, people don’t think he’s losing his sight …they just think he’s an asshole.
Short Sighted is an opportunity to explore Graham’s personal experiences with a degenerative eye disease, this five-episode podcast attempts to explain vision loss using sound. It is a blend of experimental music and comedic storytelling.
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SONG FOR NO ONE
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival
World Premiere / Dramatic Short Film / Shorts Presentation: UNSUNG VOICES
SONG FOR NO ONE is the directorial debut from actor-turned-writer/director Liam Ma (Cruel Intentions).
From his apartment in Brooklyn, Gene (Giullian Yao Gioiello) hosts an independent radio show to platform his music in hopes of one day finding a dedicated audience. Instead, his radio show reaches his recently deceased mother, Sook-Ja (Felice Choi), in the afterlife, through a radio powered by the stationary bikes that Sook-Ja and her interpreter, Han Sol (Stella Kim), ride each day.
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The Light Before the Sun is a raw, thought-provoking meditation on fame, mental health, and the limits of self-help, brought to life through the nuanced script by Rob Baker. This mid-length feature follows Daniel Wolf, a celebrated self-help guru played with heartbreaking vulnerability by Jamie Thomas King, as he returns home from an international book tour to an empty house and an even emptier sense of self. Snowed in, with his family away and his usual support system out of reach, Daniel must face the anxieties he has taught others to master. The film sets off with a familiar, well understood struggle: being forced to face ourselves without the distractions we so carefully construct.
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The Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) returns this year with over 100 artists and authors from 11 countries. The 2024 festival will explore the concept of “writing home” – from books and stories about the places we all call home, to the ideas, cultures and conflicts that inform what home means to us.
TIFA always gives us an opportunity to hear from and meet some new authors like Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez.
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Paying For It, the live-action adaptation of Chester Brown’s best-selling graphic novel, “a comic-strip memoir about being a john”, co-written and directed by Sook-Yin Lee (Octavio is Dead! Year of the Carnivore) had its world premiere in the Platform programme at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Part caper, part road trip, part spiritual journey, So Surreal: Behind the Masks follows award-winning Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond (Reel Injun, Red Fever) as he travels coast-to-coast and across the Atlantic and back, gradually piecing together this groundbreaking global story of influence, reconnection and hopeful restitution.
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Written and directed by Ryan Cooper and Eva Thomas, Aberdeen shines a light on the indomitable Aberdeen, who has been forced from her home due to flooding. As she adjusts to big-city life, she must face the inter-generational cycle of trauma that has been tearing her family apart for 5 generations in order to protect her grandchildren.
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