I was first introduced to Elaine Poon‘s work when it was screened at the Toronto Youth Shorts Film Festival back in 2010. In 2011, she participated as a finalist in Reel Asian’s So You Think You Can Pitch? competition where […]
Filmmaker Update: Jennifer Cho Suhr, Cuong Ngo
Korean American filmmaker Jennifer Cho Suhr is currently raising funds to complete her new short film and thesis project Out There, a story of Ollie, an eight year old boy, who is abruptly abandoned by his mother and left with his […]
Filmmaker Updates: Mingu Kim, Desiree Lim
Mingu Kim’s documentary A Drummer’s Passion will be screening at this year’s inaugural Toronto Korean Film Festival as part of the Korean Canadian Shorts program on June 26, 2012 7:00PM at Innis Town Hall. A Drummer’s Passion follows the legendary […]
Filmmaker Update: Gerry Balasta, Mingu Kim, Jeff Chiba Stearns
Check out what RA filmmakers Gerry Balasta, Mingu Kim and Jeff Chiba Stearns are up to…Gerry Balasta is currently working on The Solar Champion, a new comedy about a family of dreamers and the search for the next Manny Pacquiao. […]
Filmmaker Updates: Daichi Saito, Jeff Chiba Stearns, Stephanie Law, Midi Onodera, Devil Music Ensemble
Check out what RA filmmakers and artists are up to… Daïchi Saïto’s Never a Foot Too Far, Even was recently accepted into this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam. This work was commissioned by Reel Asian and LIFT and shown as […]
Filmmaker Update: Koji Yamamura & Michael Fukushima
Congrats to Japanese animation artist Koji Yamamura and NFB Producer Michael Fukushima and their team on their recent Genie nomination for 2012 Best Animated Short for Muybridge’s Strings! Based on the life and work of photographer Eadweard Muybridge, this wonderfully […]
Filmmaker Update: Shasha, Rich, Midi, Heather, Paul, Mingu
Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson’s The Sugar Bowl will be screening at the AmerAsia Film Festival in Montreal this March! The Sugar Bowl premiered at Reel Asian in 2011 as part of the Trailblazers Shorts Program. In celebration of LIFT‘s […]
Indiegogo-gadget-give!
With the holiday season just around the corner, it is definitely the time to give and receive. With crowd-funding becoming more common, sites like IndieGoGo and Kickstarter have given filmmakers a new and immediate way to raise awareness and cash […]
Dazzling Displays
Once the balloons had time to settle there was one last party to end the festival events behind the scenes. As a thank you to all the volunteers that put their hard work & time in to this year’s event […]
Review: BananaTimes on The Journals of Musan
BananaTimes strikes again! Makes you wonder where they get the time to watch and review all these selections…Check out their review of The Journals of Musan. This film is screening on Saturday, November 12, 12:00 PM at The Royal. Watch […]