Sundance Film Festival kicks off today on January 21, 2016 and runs for ten days filled with film premieres, panel discussions, installations and music events. Unfortunately the Reel Asian team can’t make it to Park City, so we scoured through the programming […]
Congrats to all the winners at the CSAs!
It was a fantastic week of celebrating homegrown Canadian talent in film, television and digital programming. The week-long event, culminating to last night’s red carpet Awards Gala, displayed a wealth of talent dedicated to honouring Canadian stories. Amongst those who […]
Filmmaker Update: Tricia Lee, Arthur Yeung, Lesley Loksi Chan
Filmmaker Tricia Lee from A Film Monkey Production is currently working on a new feature film project, “Silent Retreat”, and needs your help! The idea for Silent Retreat was born out of 10-day silent meditation retreat that Tricia took in […]
Call For Applicants: CFC Tribeca All Access
The Canadian Film Centre is looking for applicants for their Tribeca All Access Program (TAA). Application Deadline is NOVEMBER 7, 2011. Each year, one Canadian filmmaking team is selected from an open call for submissions to participate in the Tribeca […]
Filmmaker Updates: Jeff Chiba Stearns is shooting a New Doc!
Check out the Mixed Match Blog for production updates on Jeff Chiba Stearns’ new feature documentary! Here is a synopsis of the project: “Mixed Match is an inspirational, emotional, and evocative feature-length documentary by multi award winning filmmaker Jeff Chiba […]
Filmmaker Updates: Suite Suite Chinatown continues to tour!
Suite Suite Chinatown will be screening at the DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival on October 8th at 1PM and will then continue to the Philadelphia Asian Film Festival in November. Check the official Reel Asian website for more details […]
Filmmaker Update (US,Eh! Edition): Blair Fukumura, Jeff Chiba Stearns
Toronto-based filmmaker Blair Fukumura (Catalogue, RA 2008) is making his Hollywood debut at the 15th annual LA Shorts Fest with his new animation work, Paper World. It screens in competition program 15 on July 24 at 1:00pm, and Fukumura is […]
Filmmaker Updates (West Coast!): Jason Karman, Paul Wong
A couple of quick hits from two of Reel Asian’s left-coast family: Jason Karman‘s documentary short Fortune Cooking has recently been picked up by the National Screen Institute for their year-round online short film festival. Karman was in town last […]
Filmmaker Update: Tiffany Hsiung has reached her Kickstarter Goal
Congratulations to Tiffany Hsiung for surpassing her Kickstarter goal of $50,000 to fund WITHIN EVERY WOMAN, her documentary that explores the forgotten history of “The Comfort Woman”, a term used to describe over 200,000 girls who were forced into sexual […]
Filmmaker Updates: Randall Okita, Blair Fukumura
Randall Okita’s film TRANSMISSION is screening as part of the In Extremis program at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 29. Details here. Randall’s Fish in the Barrel was screened at Reel Asian in 2009. Blair Fukumura’s second short […]