The 2019 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival in partnership with Jam3 offered filmgoers an experimental pop-up experience this year, titled East of the Rockies, an interactive narrative augmented reality (AR) experience written by Ricepaper’s long-time friend, 83-year-old Joy Kogawa, … more »
Conversation with Zalika Reid-Benta and Vincent Ternida
On a rare sunny day in the Fall, I was able to connect with Zalika Reid-Benta, author of Frying Plantain — a short story collection about Kara, a Jamaican-Canadian girl growing up in … more »
May shrugs her left shoulder to keep her bag from slipping, glances up across the classical vinyl section in search of wayward Mimi, and then back down to the slim cardboard sleeves, hoping to alight on something rare, something that … more »
Join us for the launch of the anthology “Immersions” and immerse yourself in unexpected worlds.Your janitors are secretly part of an underground society. Craigslist shamans are available for shape shifters. Hopping corpses terrorize a small town while an aging
Son of James’ front man Shon Wong classifies their unique sound as “Chyna-Trucker-Funk”. “It blends the haunting sounds of Chinese instrumentation with the soulful sounds of Southern Rock and funk,” Shon describes.
At first glance, Shon Wong embodies a type … more »
I’ve always wondered if the Comedy Of The Absurd is a criticism of the human condition: Life is a series of accidents that veer towards a pointless milieu of pain, frustration, and disappointment– with death as a subpar release of … more »
Taiwan’s contemporary cinema thrives with the personal story. Korean films glorify spectacle while Japan prefers its offbeat genre-benders. Contrary to this metric, Taiwan keeps to its path of elegant simplicity as it navigates through its perennial themes revolving around the … more »
Every year, I gravitate towards the anime offering for VIFF from classics such as Wolf Children and duds like Red Turtle, every year I roll a proverbial dice. Children of the Sea by Watanabe Ayumi is a bit of … more »
We fall because we’re alive, an adage that resonated throughout the film as a drunken warning by herald Sakamoto to protagonist Dazai as he set off in his plagiarism. Sakamoto returned later in the story to provide another clichéd piece … more »
How do we tell politically potent stories? How to do we resist stereotypes and champion marginalized voices in all their complexity? From October 21-27, 2019, The Vancouver Writers Fest will welcome more than 100 authors from around the world to … more »
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