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By the dictates of destiny, the Toronto International Film Festival’s milestone 50th edition (4-14 September 2025) finds itself in the eyes of three trying tempests: one, an unprecedented technological disruption …
She wasn’t brought up on picture books the way her own children were. Even though illustrated storybooks existed back in the early 1970s – for example The Snowy Day by …
Note – some minor spoilers! Detective Chinatown 1900 (唐探1900) is a movie within the Detective Chinatown movie franchise, and despite jokes on Reddit about having to watch 1899 movies before this one, Detective Chinatown …
Join Federation of British Columbia Writers (FBCW) host Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho and panellists Allan Cho, Jessica Key, and Cadence Mandybura as we explore what it takes to pitch successfully to a magazine editor. …
A bosom film crew’s decade-long reunion to revive a movie after funding ran dry on it coincides fatefully with the endemic onset of Covid-19 in Wuhan as they are about …
Bound in Heaven (Huo Xin, China 2024) After an esteemed 26-year career writing for the likes of Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle, Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons) and being …
More than three decades after his death in a car accident in 1991 at age 52, a small sampling of Lino Brocka’s corpus of 66 feature films has slowly been …
The painkiller, dissolved in my stomach at 3:26 am, is not working. I am nothing but a dark vagina and a stormy uterus. I imagine – with sober hands, care, …
Ricepaper Magazine mourns the loss of Roy Miki, whose passing marks the end of an era in Canadian literature and social justice. As a poet, scholar, and lifelong activist, Roy’s …
Not long after its Lead Sponsor of 28 years had yelled ‘Cut!’ last year, another rival Telco (one of Canada’s largest) gamely stepped in to become the Toronto International Film …