In There Are No Words, filmmaker Min Sook Lee turns inward to confront and explore silence, memory, and grief across continents in a poetic meditation on personal and communal loss and family legacy.
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Finch and Midland is an intersection in Scarborough. Like other intersections in the suburbs of Canada’s largest city, this intersection also has many a story to tell. In Finch & Midland, writer/director Timothy Yeung focuses on four stories from the wave of Hong Kong immigrants who came to Canada in the 1990s hoping for a new life.
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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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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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The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (Reel Asian), Canada’s premier pan-Asian festival, begins its 2019 edition next week. As always, Reel Asian will offer festival goers the opportunity to experience the evolution of Asian representation in cinema.
Reel Asian has been a favourite festival of mine for many years. I always enjoy curating a list of films and events for you to partake at the fest each year.
Stand Up Man
Friday November 17, 2017 @ 7:00pm| Isabel Bader Theatre
Synopsis: Forced to move back to his hometown Windsor, wannabe comedian Moses Kim finds his dreams derailed in his family restaurant. Life gets more complicated when Moses’ teenage cousin from Korea unexpectedly shows up.
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Gook
Justin Chon | USA | 2017 | Rated 14A | English, Korean with English subtitles
Synopsis: Eli (Justin Chon) and Daniel (David So), two Korean American brothers, own a struggling shoe store and have an unlikely friendship with Kamilla (Simone Baker), a street smart 11-year-old African American girl. Kamilla ditches school, Eli stresses about the store, and Daniel seems to always be looking for a good time. It is another typical day at the store until the Rodney King verdict is read and riots break out. With chaos and potential trouble looming, the trio is forced to defend the store while contemplating the future of their own personal dreams and the true meaning of family. READ MORE
The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (Reel Asian), in partnership with Create Hong Kong and the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society with support from the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Toronto (HKETO), announced today the details of Creative Visions: Hong Kong Cinema 1997-2017, a weekend of free Hong Kong films in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). Toronto has the special distinction to be one of the only 11 cities in the world selected to host this event. Creative Visions: Hong Kong Cinema 1997-2017 runs June 23 to June 25 at TIFF Bell Lightbox. READ MORE
In case you missed its first instalment, Reel Asian’s Retro Summer Series continues at the TIFF Bell Lightbox on Thursday, August 25th. In honour of the festival’s 20th anniversary, they are celebrating the achievements of Asian filmmakers by bringing back fan favourites, chosen by festival audiences. READ MORE
