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LIVE FRI NOV 4, 4:30PM
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RYN - MY NAME IS HIEU
8:00 min • 2022 • Canada • English • Documentary
VANCOUVER PREMIERE
Within a few months of arriving in Canada, Hieu Fraser had her name taken away from her twice. Based on a refugee experience in Canada, MY NAME IS HIEU shows the importance of names and the microaggressions apparent in western society.
ANGELA is an avid consumer of media and an occasional creator of media.
She is a graduate of UBC’s Media
Studies program, and unnecessarily flaunts her pride of being part of the first graduating year. Her love for digital media is most prevalent in film.
MINERVA NAVASCA is an emerging Filipina director and producer, entering her final year of the BFTV program at Sheridan College. Best known for “KAMAYAN” (2020), which has been showcased at the 2022 TIFF Next Wave, she aims to explore hyperpersonal stories of cultural dysphoria and girlhood with intimate specificity.
DIRECTOR | WRITER Angela Leung PRODUCERS Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Elimin8Hate
GUARDIANS
WESTERN CANADA PREMIERE
6:00 min • 2021 • Canada • Tagalog, English • Participatory Documentary
With concerned phone calls from friends and family, GUARDIANS walks the viewer through the psychological reality of a girl's nightly trip home. Discussions surrounding seemingly mundane choices are framed with a hyper-vigilant lens, bringing into question what the true price of safety is.
DIRECTOR Minerva Navasca PRODUCER Brianne Harvie
BLURRING THE COLOR LINE
CRYSTAL KWOK
What did it mean to be Chinese in a Black space during segregation? Following director Crystal Kwok’s personal journey of discovery, she digs into how her grandmother’s family navigated life as grocery store owners in the Black neighborhood of Augusta, Georgia.
LIVE FRI NOV 4, 4:30PM
DIRECTOR Q&A
CANADIAN PREMIERE
77 minutes • USA • 2022 • English • Documentary
CRYSTAL KWOK is an award-winning filmmaker with experience both in front of and behind the camera. As a strong women’s advocate, her talk show, “KWOKTALK” broke boundaries in the Hong Kong media with conversations about women and sexuality.
DIRECTOR | WRITER Crystal Kwok PRODUCERS Daniel Wu W. Kamau Bell Lisa Ling
