Our stories matter not just during the month of May, but all times of the year. Across Canada and the U.S. there are several community and volunteer-driven organizations producing cultural events to help us learn more about our stories as part of the Asian diaspora in North America.
The FascinAsian Film Festival is one of Canada’s newest film festivals to celebrate our stories.
FascinAsian Film Festival Calgary takes place from May 2nd to 5th with a wide range of programming with the second half of its festival in Winnipeg from May 24th to May 26th.
The Asian filmmaking community in Calgary and Winnipeg
Cold Tea Collective is proud to be a media partner for the FascinAsian Film Festival and recently connected with Alan Wong about the upcoming festival that takes place in both Calgary and Winnipeg and here’s what we learned about the community.
From the arts, to restaurants, fashion and more Calgary is home to a large Vietnamese community, and a growing number of Filipino families call Winnipeg home.
In the last few years, we’ve also seen major productions such as the first season of critically-acclaimed The Last of Us filmed in Calgary and the upcoming Ke Huy Quan-led action feature, With Love, currently being filmed in Winnipeg.
Within each city, while unique and distinct, so too are each cities’ perspectives on what it means to be of pan Asian descent; these perspectives are reflected in the local filmmaking communities.
What to look forward to at the 2024 FascinAsian Film Festival
Kicking off this year’s festival is a recently-announced TV writers’ workshop facilitated by Ins Choi, creator of Kim’s Convenience. Choi will lead nine BIPOC emerging screenwriters through a two-day intensive workshop where they will learn to write half-hour sitcoms. This is a closed program, but Choi will also be participating in another event with Chinese Canadian authors in Calgary.
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