Film Categories: Asian

  • Peking Turkey

    Chris Wong takes his French-Canadian boyfriend “homo” for Christmas, despite his traditional Chinese parents’ disapproval. With the dramatics of three languages (English, French, and Chinese) swirling around the table, Pierre tries to make a bond with Chris’ parents and find the approval he wants. Audience Award for Best Short at the Sacramento Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival, 2009

  • Golden Pin, The

    Long, a young Vietnamese-Canadian swimmer, finds himself struggling between the expectations of his family and the demands of his heart. His father wants him to marry soon, but his mother, haunted by a past romance, hopes her son will stand up for what he believes. English & Vietnamese with English subtitles Awards: Colin Campbell Award for Best Canadian Short, Toronto Inside Out Festival 2009; 2nd Place, National Film Board Award for Best Canadian Short, 2009

  • irma Vep

    Mad pursuit for the wild life leads to an outrageously messy story about a cover girl who encounters dangerous magazine cut-outs. irmaVep / Stars the bride of quietness / In a flowery tale, / Who will transform thy shape, / Leaving behind unanswered questions: / What maidens loath? / What mad pursuit? / What struggle to escape? / What wild ecstasy? Selected Screenings: Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival, 2009 (Toronto, Canada); Cucalorus Festival, 2009 (Wilmington, NC)

  • Seeing Through the Spider’s Web

    “SEEING THROUGH THE SPIDER’S WEB” weaves diverse interviews, documentary sequences, archival images, and utilizes a range of film stocks and experimental techniques in order to explore the effect of migration on family relations, faulty memories and failing eyesight.

  • Displaced View, The

    “The Displaced View” traces a personal search for identity and pride, within the unique and suppressed history of the Japanese in Canada. Through an examination of the emotional and cultural links between the women of one family, the processes of the construction of memory and the re-construction of history are revealed. Utilizing an innovative combination of experimental, dramatic and documentary forms, the film emerges as a deeply moving and compassionate love letter. Just as the official history of the Japanese Canadians has been thrown into question, so does the film’s fictionalized narrative question doumentary as truth.

  • Animated Heavy Metal Parking Lot, The

    A stop-motion animated tribute to Jeff Krulik and John Heyn’s 1986 video documentary classic, “HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT”. Remaining faithful to no-budget filmmaking, Supnet reconstructs her favorite scenes using cut-out characters made of aged paper, glue and ink.

  • Small Misunderstanding, A

    A young boy endures a tragic, yet much needed, event when a small misunderstanding occurs between himself and a hungry little bird. No Dialogue

  • Fair Trade

    A young woman experiences heavy nostalgic trauma, as she purges herself from the materiality of her past. “FAIR TRADE” is a story of one woman’s quest for a psychedelic transformation.

  • Hang in There

    A nightmarish animated short about a young couple who come to the aid of a troubled bear and unknowingly release its innermost demons.

  • TWO BEDS

    A queer doppelganger couple fights the age-old battle between poly-amorous adventure and hetero-normative monogamy. Winner of the Best Low Budget Film Award, Sicilia Queer Film Festival (Italy, 2011)