Earlier in the year, I was lucky to meet with five lovely and talented Vancouver-based film figures. Phil Planta, Mayumi Yoshida, Nach Dudsdeemaytha, Jerome Yoo, and Lee Shorten shared their thoughts on projects that have won … more »
Vancouver’s film scene is blessed with a rich and vast talent pool. In the past few years, Phil Planta, Mayumi Yoshida, Nach Dudsdeemaytha, Jerome Yoo, and Lee Shorten have come together and collaborated on several remarkable … more »
“Get out of here! You’re not welcome!” Two white men whizzed by from behind me in a Ford Ranger while I was sauntering back home from the grocery store here in White Rock. My black hair blew gently in the … more »
I was just a child in the backseat of the car. It was an old Honda civic. Grey in colour. My mother was driving. I don’t remember where we were headed. I don’t remember anything else of that day, except … more »
Her voice sliced through bar chatter. “A shot and a beer.”
She pointed to the special on the board. The bartender nodded, sanctioning Kareena’s boldness with the movement of her half-ponytail.
“Do you take credit?”
The woman’s look of approval … more »
My first plane ride
took me to rain
splattering against the windows
of the cab
fingers were tightening
over mine
mother’s?
I knew
this was no vacation
the squat house stood
on the corner of autumn
dreamlike in its strangeness… more »
The past couple of years have been a remarkably better time for Asians in the broader Western media space. A system barring Asians from respectable on-screen roles for decades is now cracking as social, economic, and technological drivers around the … 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 »
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 »
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