Nowadays, it’s pretty common to find Asians (nearly) everywhere in the world. But people still have perceptions thinking a person or a country is this way or that. The Asians Elsewhere series aims to show diversity within the broader Asian … more »
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Over the last few years, actor Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, has been busy playing Mr. Kim (“Appa”) almost continuously since 2011 when “Kim’s Convenience” debuted at Toronto’s Fringe Festival. For this role, he won Best Actor at both the Toronto … more »
The Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF) runs Thursday, November 1 to Sunday, November 4 at Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas and Ricepaper is excited to be a community partner for another year! Our partner film is the documentary, Ulam: Main … more »
RP: You graduated in the MFA Creative Writing program at the Columbia University. What was that like? How did you decide that you wanted to enter the program and become a writer?
Columbia was very hard, partly because I was … more »
Junko Iwao is one of the most famous seiyuus (voice actresses) working in Japan. She debuted as a member of the idol group Saint Four at the age of 16 and later debuted as a voice actor through NHK animation … more »
Crazy Rich closes in on the 6th highest grossing rom-com of all time (North American box office). In the 4th and last part of our Crazy Rich special, we talk whether big-budget movies fail when they don’t deliver a society … more »
Interviewer’s note: I met Kevin Chong over Skype in the spring of 2016, shortly after he began supervising my master’s thesis under UBC’s online creative writing program. I was a bundle of nerves, full of all the typical writerly anxieties. … more »
Margaret Moran Cho is a Korean-American, Grammy and Emmy nominated comedian who was named one of Rolling Stone magazine’s 50 Best Stand-Up Comics of All Time and has received rave reviews for her stand-up comedy routines. She is also an … more »
Crazy Rich Asians has been a force at the box office adding proof that times have changed and many major media markets in the West want diversity. But the film is no masterpiece and our friends Bessie, Justine, and Celia … more »
Our session with the guys closes talking about the non-Chinese in Crazy Rich Asians before touching on the complexity of stereotypes in media and why a person should not think a certain type of name should match a certain type … more »