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Yellow Rose (Closing Night Gala Screening)

Friday November 15, 2019 @ 7:00 pm | Isabel Bader Theatre View Map

Philippines, USA 2019 Rated PG 94:00 English, Tagalog with English Subtitles Toronto Premiere Drama Buy Tickets

Rose is an undocumented Filipina teenager who lives with her mom at a small-town Texas motel and spends her days writing country songs and dreaming of stardom. When her mom is targeted and arrested in an immigration raid, Rose is left alone to deal with a world full of adult problems that she doesn’t quite understand. Her only solace is in the music that is bursting from inside her.

Tony-nominated Broadway performer Eva Noblezada (Hadestown), in her film debut, dazzles as Rose. She fills the screen with charm and innocent wonder, and she possesses a knockout voice that will captivate audiences. Equally impressive is the supporting cast including Broadway legend Lea Salonga (Miss Saigon), veteran Philippines actor Princess Punzalan and acclaimed country musician Dale Watson.  

In her stirring feature film debut, veteran documentary filmmaker Diane Paragas has crafted an ambitious American country music fairy tale that is of our time yet timeless. And like many fairy tales where the danger and cruelty of the larger world is always close at hand, our heroine must rely on her extraordinary gift and a few helpful friends that she encounters on her journey in order to find her happy ending.

– AC

Credits

Cast

Eva Noblezada
Lea Salonga
Princess Punzalan*
Libby Villari
Dale Watson

*In attendance

Director's Bio

Diane Paragas

Diane Paragas is an award-winning documentary, commercial and narrative film director, and writer. She co-directed, shot and edited Brooklyn Boheme (featuring Spike Lee and Chris Rock), which premiered on Showtime and won the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Television Documentary. Paragas participated in the Sundance Creative Producing Lab with her documentary, The Three Lives of David Wong, and has won grants from BERTHA and the Center of Asian American Media. She is also the founder and owner of Brooklyn-based Civilian Studios.

Recognition

OFFICIAL SELECTION

2019 Asian American International Film Festival 

2019 CAAMFest

2019 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

2019 Bentonville Film Festival

AWARDS

Breakthrough Performance North American Narrative Feature, 2019 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

Grand Jury Award North American Narrative Feature, 2019 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

Jury Award Feature Narrative, 2019 Bentonville Film Festival

COMCAST Narrative Award, 2019 CAAMFest

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with actor Princess Punzalan, who plays Priscilla Garcia in Yellow Rose

CLOSING NIGHT GALA RECEPTION
Friday, Nov 15 • 9:30 PM–12:00AM
CENTRE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION – ANNEX
(720 BATHURST ST)

$10 at the door / FREE for members or with closing night ticket stub
Join us as we take over the CSI Annex Lounge space to wrap up Reel Asian’s 23rd edition! We’re in a gorgeous new venue in the Annex, just west of midtown, with Filipino hors d’oeuvres from Tita Flips. Thanks to the Film Development Council of the Philippines and National Wines for their generous support.

We are happy to have the event’s Photo Booth services provided by Imagica in Toronto.

 

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