This installment of In The City features a personal curated list including several events, screenings and exhibits, I wish to attend as part of my birthday celebration. I may not make it to all, but hoping some of you will partake in one, a couple or a few of these.
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Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 nuclear weapons on American soil from 1951 to 1992. The fallout is still lethally impacting US citizens today.
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Cahoots Theatre presents its third premiere since Spring 2022 with playwright playwright Amanda Lin’s and director Esther Jun’s BETWEEN A WOK AND A HOT POT. While preparing a traditional hot pot onstage, Mandy reminisces about when it wasn’t cool to be Asian, and delves into the complicated topics of identity and appropriation.
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Evoking the Greek tragedy Medea, Diop’s inspiration for SAINT OMER was the 2013 news story of a 15 month old girl found drowned on a beach and the French mother of Senegalese origin accused in her death.
With the story covered in almost all news outlets, Diop was drawn to it and the idea for a film was planted. After seeing a photo of the accused mother taken by surveillance camera, Diop decided she would attend the trial in 2016 as an observer and for research to write the film’s script. The trial was a very impactful emotional experience.
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Jafar Panahi has been making a mark in cinema for many years. Due to many years of conflict with the Iranian government over the contet of his film, Panahi was arrested in March 2010 along with his family and some close friends, and charged with propaganda against the Iranian government. Later that year, he was imprisoned and given a 20-year ban on directing any movies, writing screenplays, giving any form of interview with Iranian or foreign media.
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It’s officially the week between Christmas and New Year’s… what day is it? What time is it?
What to do… what to do? Well, here is a list of family-friendly and overall fun events you can partake and enjoy over this week and into the new year 2023.
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Director Fernando Guzzoni‘s latest feature, BLANQUITA, is Chile’s Official Oscar entry for 2022 for International Best Film Category.
The film is inspired by the real-life early 2000s Spiniak Case involving a controversial child prostitution ring which provided services to a number of high-placed politicians and businessmen in Chile. The case divided the Chilean population as it went through the courts, with doubts being cast on the testimony of key witness who was herself caught up in the ring as a minor and accused two senators of abusing her.
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An interactive, multi-screen narrative experience created by filmmaker and multi-media artist Naomi Jaye, MIRIAM’S WORLD takes over Theatre Passe Muraille’s Mainspace from December 9-18 and features Pamela Palsat, Isai Rivera Blas, Scott Clarkson, Pascale Couderc, Tarick Glancy, Adrian Griffin, Gloria Mampuya, Brian Rhodes, and Pete Smith.
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Chanda Dancy is an artist and composer for film and other multimedia projects. She has been a fellow of the 2009 Sundance Film Composers Lab, and a winner of the 2002 BMI Pete Carpenter Fellowship for Aspiring Film Composers and the 2004 APM/YMF Music Business Award.
Her composing work includes music for the hit Netflix TV Original THE DEFEATED starring Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights), and most recently, the Korean War era epic DEVOTION starring Jonathan Majors (Da 5 Bloods, Loki).
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Reel Asian’s So You Think You Can Pitch? 2022 competition made a triumphant return at this year’s annual festival! As in previous years, there was a live showdown between finalists as they pitched their short-film projects to a jury for a chance to win a fabulous prize package to kickstart or finish their film.
This year’s pitch winner was Carol Nguyen. She is a Vietnamese Canadian filmmaker, born and raised in Toronto, now based in Montreal. Her pitch project’s title is Beyond Borders.
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