Canada, India, Singapore, UK, USA2025–202691 MIN 15 SVarious languages with English subtitlesAvailable Online
One day, you choose to look beyond the stadium show and find yourself in the cracks of the stage. There, you encounter charm, playfulness, and invention beyond imagination. Do you venture in?
For: zinesters • DIY aficionados • lovers of camp, melodrama, wigs
The Reel Asian Digital Community Archive was dreamed up to reflect on the festival's history as we approached our 30th anniversary. From cleaning out the office and sorting through boxes of storage materials to public callouts for community members old and new to submit their personal materials, we embarked on a six-month journey of collecting and documenting. The archive is now live and available for anyone interested in looking at the festival through its traces.
11 Nov.
Bryce and Mei Lee make home movies with a video camera, at their uncle's Chinese Restaurant in Vancouver island to pass the time. Bryce wants to level up, make some new friends, and get super popular through filmmaking. The quickest way to do that? Tell everyone he knows Bruce Lee.
14 Nov. 6:00 pm
11-year-old Cyrus Sundar Singh joined an after-school film club whose members all happened to be the children of immigrants. While learning to love film, they also grappled with their identities — were they Chinese, Indian, or Italian? Were they Canadian? Together, they made a short film that explored these ideas and more.
14 Nov. 10:00 am
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.
401 Richmond Street West, The Commons (Suite 448)
Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3A8 Canada
(416) 703 – 9333
info@reelasian.com
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