2026English
Writers from Reel Asian’s TV Writing Program bring their original series to the table for a live reading of selected scenes, presented in collaboration with ACTRA Toronto. Professional actors will bring the characters and stories to life, followed by a reception with the writers, performers, and industry guests.
Sara Jade Alfaro-Dehghani
TV Project Title: The Olde Guard
Logline: In the cutthroat world of Niagara Falls dinner theatre, an aging king facing obsolescence and his ambitious young replacement forge an unlikely alliance in their fight for survival, exposing the darkly ridiculous power struggles behind Canada’s most beloved fantasy franchise.
Srutika Sabu
TV Project Title: Peaked
Logline: The ghost of a girlboss tech executive fails to haunt her husband and childhood rival as they make a legacy-defining documentary about recovering her corpse from Mount Everest. But the down-on-her luck cinematographer who can see her has a question: Why is she still fighting for the man who left her on a mountain?
Jaskaran Singh
TV Project Title: There Are No Heroes
Logline: The son of a drunk and abusive Indian psychic goes back in time to kill his father, and must come to terms with his superhuman abilities. When he discovers others have transformed their childhood trauma into extraordinary powers, he must protect them from a world determined to destroy what it doesn’t understand.
Claudine Yip
TV Project Title: Eternal Affairs
Logline: When a woman unexpectedly dies the day before her 29th birthday, she’s in for the shock of her afterlife when her ashes are sold into a ghost marriage with a dead man she’s never met. To escape the arrangement, she strikes a deal with the Grim Reaper, only to grow closer to her new husband while unravelling the truth behind their entangled pasts.
Mayumi Yoshida
TV Project Title: Homestaying
Logline: With the arrival of new homestay Ayana, a group of misfit immigrants in East Vancouver form an unlikely family and deal with their dreams, relationships, and identity as they try to find a place to belong in their home away from home.
Kevin Matthew Wong is a theatre creator, producer, performer, projection designer, arts facilitator and environmentalist. He is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Broadleaf Theatre, merging environmentalism and live performance. Kevin’s ongoing work The Chemical Valley Project is a multimedia solo-performance about environmentalism and reconciliation that has toured across Canada and to Germany. He’s currently working on projection design on a new work about authenticity and internet culture by Philip Nozuka.
Kevin Matthew Wong is a theatre creator, producer, performer, projection designer, arts facilitator and environmentalist. He is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Broadleaf Theatre, merging environmentalism and live performance. Kevin’s ongoing work The Chemical Valley Project is a multimedia solo-performance about environmentalism and reconciliation that has toured across Canada and to Germany. He’s currently working on projection design on a new work about authenticity and internet culture by Philip Nozuka.
Kevin Matthew Wong is a theatre creator, producer, performer, projection designer, arts facilitator and environmentalist. He is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Broadleaf Theatre, merging environmentalism and live performance. Kevin’s ongoing work The Chemical Valley Project is a multimedia solo-performance about environmentalism and reconciliation that has toured across Canada and to Germany. He’s currently working on projection design on a new work about authenticity and internet culture by Philip Nozuka.
19 Nov, 2026 7:30 pm
It's OK* StudiosDrawing on the Disability Screen Office’s newly launched REFRAMING ACCESS: A BEST PRACTICES GUIDE ON DISABILITY INCLUSION IN CANADA'S SCREEN INDUSTRY, this conversation will explore how filmmakers can establish inclusive accessibility practices across all stages of production and beyond.
17 Nov. 6:30 pm
RENT A PLUS-ONE, offers a case study in what happens when filmmakers build for a vertical frame. Its creators unpack their journey from traditional web series to vertical.
16 Nov. 6:30 pm
Hear from directors, producers, and creatives working across music and visual media about building worlds around songs, collaborating with artists, and finding new ways to connect music and image while navigating tight budgets and production schedules.
20 Nov. 7:30 pm
Founded in Toronto in 1997, Reel Asian is Canada’s largest pan-Asian film festival and a year-round cultural organization dedicated to championing Asian and Asian diasporic artists and storytellers. What began as a grassroots film festival has grown into a national platform supporting filmmakers and audiences through screenings, education, industry initiatives, artist development, and community programming presented across Toronto, the GTA, and online across Canada.
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