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Live Events Listing

Reel Asian offers exciting live events where you can engage with filmmakers, artists, and other audience members in real-time. We have at least one Q&A, artist talk, panel, or special event every day of the festival! Click below to see each day at a glance, and open up further details about each event to help you plan your watching windows and make the most out of your festival experience.

All live events are viewable on our CineSend portal at watch.reelasian.com unless otherwise specified. To access the portal as a ticketholder, enter the 9-digit access code sent in your virtual access email from our ticketing provider, Elevent, into the Ticket Holders field. Please note that free events still require you to register for a free ticket. Or, if you are a passholder, log in as a member using your email address and password. After accessing the event’s play page, click the “Live Event” button when the event is about to start.

Hosted by Made In’s Evy and Jasmine in partnership with ISO Radio & Hot Pot Community
With DJ sets and performances by New Ho Queen, Jeka, and Miasalav and a live giveaway from Auntie’s Supply!

FREE

Moderator Aram Siu-Wai Collier Broadcast live from the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema
With Martin Edralin (director), Priscilla Galvez (producer), Sheila Lotuaco (“Marisol”), Esteban Comilang (“Reynaldo”)

INCLUDED WITH TICKET

Part of the REEL IDEAS CONFERENCE: HERE IN THE FUTURE PAST presented by Crave with special support from the Director’s Guild of Canada.

Moderator Jasmine Gui (Programmer – Industry & Education, Reel Asian)
Panelists Aaditya Aggarwal (Writer, Editor and Programmer), Philbert Lui (Multimedia Producer, The Japan Foundation Toronto),
V.T. Nayani (Director, Producer and Writer, Mutuals Pictures Inc.), Khanh Tudo (Programmer and Artist, Insomniac Film Festival)

BUY TICKET

Moderator Aram Siu-Wai Collier (Head of Programming, Reel Asian)
With
Ahu’s Journal | Weeda Azim (director)
The Orchid & The Tree | Ganesh Thava (director)
Chakar (ਚੱਕਰ) | Harman Kang (director)
watering | James Legaspi (diretor)

INCLUDED WITH TICKET

Part of our RA:X – ABSENCE|PRESENCE Programming presented with the support of Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund
Artist Talk Golboo Amani, New Media Futures: Exploring Conditions of Knowledge Production

FREE

Co-Hosts Ann Pornel, Angela Sun
Join us on Twitch or YouTube for appointment-viewing of our awards ceremony!

FREE

Part of our RA:X – ABSENCE|PRESENCE Programming presented with the support of Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund
Panel Retrospections Moderated by Vinita Srivastava
Panelists Anjula Gogia, Amita Handa, Sudharshan Durayappah

FREE

Part of the REEL IDEAS CONFERENCE: HERE IN THE FUTURE PAST presented by Crave with special support from the Director’s Guild of Canada.

Moderator Maral Mohmammadian (Producer, National Film Board of Canada)
Panelists Shabnam Rezaei (Co-founder, Big Bad Boo Studios), Ann Marie Fleming (Filmmaker, Sleepy Dog Films), Ananya Ohri (Producer and Writer), Fiona Raye Clarke (Writer, Creator and Producer)

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Part of the REEL IDEAS CONFERENCE: HERE IN THE FUTURE PAST presented by Crave with special support from the Director’s Guild of Canada.
Part of the CANADIAN SPOTLIGHT ON ALI KAZIMI presented by Crave with special support from the Province of Ontario and the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund

Featuring Ali Kazimi discussing his artistic practice in his works CONTINUOUS JOURNEY and RANDOM ACTS OF LEGACY

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Part of the REEL IDEAS CONFERENCE: HERE IN THE FUTURE PAST presented by Crave with special support from the Director’s Guild of Canada.

Moderator Karen B.K. Chan (Educator, Fluid Exchange)
Panelists Maya Bastian (Filmmaker), Randall Okita (Filmmaker and Artist), Catherine Hernandez (Author and Screenwriter)

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Part of the REEL IDEAS CONFERENCE: HERE IN THE FUTURE PAST presented by Crave with special support from the Director’s Guild of Canada.

Moderator Belinda Kwan (Arts Administrator & Independent Curator, InterAccess, Trinity Square Video, Bunker 2 Contemporary Art Container)
Panelists Sean Lee (Artist and Curator, Tangle Art + Disability), Scott Miller Berry (Programmer and Cultureal Worker, Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival), Darian Razdar (Organizer, Researcher and Artist, Bricks & GlitterREFLEX Urbanism)

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Part of the CENTREPIECE SPOTLIGHT ON HAWAI’I presented by Change Connect and the Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto.

Moderator Aram Siu-Wai Collier (Head of Programming, Reel Asian)
In Discussion With Christopher Kahunahana (director, WAIKIKI), Christopher Makoto Yogi (director, I WAS A SIMPLE MAN)

FREE

Part of the REEL IDEAS CONFERENCE: HERE IN THE FUTURE PAST presented by Crave with special support from the Director’s Guild of Canada.

Moderator Han Bang (Senior Product Experience Designer & Content Creator)
Panelists Sagan Yee (Media Artist), Samir Mallal (Writer & Director), Tricia Hagoriles (Filmmaker)

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Part of the REEL IDEAS CONFERENCE: HERE IN THE FUTURE PAST presented by Crave with special support from the Director’s Guild of Canada.

Moderator Kara Harun (Writer, Director and Producer)
Panelists Zach Feldberg (Head of YA Digital Originals, CBC Gem), Tony Kim (Actor/Producer/Entertainer, CBC Kids), Marie McCann (Sr. Director Children’s Content, CBC)

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Part of the REEL IDEAS CONFERENCE: HERE IN THE FUTURE PAST presented by Crave with special support from the Director’s Guild of Canada.

Moderator Janet-Rose Nguyen (Actor, Writer and Creator)
Panelists Mayumi Yoshida (Filmmaker), JP Larocque (TV Writer and Producer, Misnomer Productions), Sherren Lee (Filmmaker, Director’s Guild of Canada)

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SO YOU THINK YOU CAN PITCH? Live Finale & Pitch Awards presented by NBC Universal and Behind The Scenes Services.

Pitch MC Ellie Posadas Pitch Jurors Richard Young, Victoria Morado, Aisha Jamal
Finalists
An Apology | dir. Helmann Wilhelm
Don’t Forget Me | dir. Alice Wang
It Happens To Us | dir. Anubhav Singh
Purgatory | dir. Nikki Shaffeeullah
Unibrow | dir. Nedda Sarshar

FREE

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