Film Categories: Asian

  • Olympia Story

    From the near silence and invisibility of late motherhood, a resolute woman attempts to help a young stranger who also finds herself at the edge of existence.

  • Dawn

    Dawn tells the story of two strangers who have more in common than they first realize. After Tye detects what he considers a racist glance from another passenger on the evening train home, a confrontation ensues. Tye is shocked to discover that they share something big, and both men are forced to face their prejudices in ways they never expected. Iris Prize Shortlist 2013

  • I Met A Man From Burma

    Inspired by the David Lynch Interview Project, this character-driven film explores the oldest going conflict in the world – the country of Burma (now Myanmar). Expressed through the personal pain of one man, Burmese Refugee and “Freedom Fighter”- Ler Wah Lobo, from personal loss, regret and hope – this is a tale of a man from Burma.

  • Howard

    “Howard” is a documentary about the filmmaker’s estranged Uncle Howard who was murdered in Yonkers in 1995. The film uncovers his complex and conflicted life as a gay man troubled with piety and self worth, which drove him to success, yet, ultimately led to self-destructive behavior and death. The story is intertwined with the filmmaker’s musings about the life/death of the Uncle she did not know in an attempt to comprehend what it means to have an estranged relative murdered.

  • Magical Coincidence

    Ben Lim, a super 8 filmmaker, meets Amy Craig, a graduate student, when she attends Ben’s screening with one of his friends. The arrival of a mysterious message sends them both on a journey together down the rabbit hole, where they enter into a shifting world of, love language and coincidence. A unique film, since the filmmakers used a coin toss to dictate decisions within the story, casting and production. Winner: Pitch Competition, Reel Asian International Film Festival, 2011.

  • INTER-MEZZO

    INTER-MEZZO is a documentary of performance as well as a performance of documentary. Through a triptych, which treats the voice as a metaphor for political voice, Stephen Chen traces his journey as a male mezzo, faced with prejudice and marginalization back in Singapore, and later in North America. The schooling and suppression of his voice becomes interwoven with his experiences of colonialism and exile. DOH! OH DEAR, A FEMALE TEAR! plays with the biography documentary form, dealing with issues of voice / gender / representation as Stephen traces his westernization, the discovery and silencing of his voice, and people’s reactions…

  • Entelechy

    A complex work that portrays three evolutionary states in human development – Physicality (harmony with the environment); Intellectuality (disharmony with the environment); Spirituality (unity with the environment).

  • Entropiscape

    A synthesis of visual, aural and kinetic elements that evolve from one state into another. Although no statement is made within its content, the film does follow a curve with a beginning, middle and end.

  • Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle

    A comedy of obsession and assimilation that charts the true account of a first generation Chinese-Canadian’s attempt to fit into a white middle-class suburb. After an alienated childhood, she eventually lands a job at an unpopular pasta bar, walking the streets as a 10-foot egg noodle. A transformation occurs when her new persona, Mr. Noodle, supersedes her own identity – only to confront a similar alienation as a noodle human.

  • Everything Everywhere Again Alive

    “Everything Everywhere Again Alive” is a nature film with a difference. It is about a concept of nature which is communicated by a series of very simple images. These very simple images are used like building blocks of ideas to build a complex representation of nature as well as diaristic events taking place in the film. “Everything…” is an elaboration of two films by painters Jack Chambers (Circle) and Joyce Wieland (Solidarity) and in another sense, Michael Snow (La Region Centrale). “Everything…” is about space and the meaning of the infinite as it is used in Chinese painting. The shape…