Young is currently realizing his passion, working as a writer and an actor. His latest film, Maternal, is about a girl, born in Canada with a Caribbean mother, who’s waiting for an acceptance letter from her dream arts program
View More The Immigrant’s Dilemma in Arts: an Interview with Richard Young
In partnership with Apathy is Boring, New Canadian Media will be posting first-person accounts from the 150 Years Young Project, a campaign that highlights the positive impact…
View More Lack of Mainstream Diversity was Never an ExcuseLast week turned out to be an unplanned Asian cinema watching binge, watching four Asian films – three Chinese and one Korean. I love Asian films…
View More Asian Cinema Week: Chop-Socky of FunOVER 300 movie-goers attended the recent world premiere of ‘My First 150 Days in Canada’, a documentary that strikes to the core of the Canadian…
View More Depicting the First 150 Days in Canada
From a machine gun wielding high school girl-yakuza boss to time travelling samurai; from sexual awakening in the final devastating days of WWII Tokyo to…
View More Second World War Featured Prominently at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
“Just because you’ve fallen off ship doesn’t mean you’re drowning.” In the film My Internship in Canada, the person struggling to stay afloat is the…
View More Comedy Reveals Challenges of Canadian DemocracySo then … the Oscars are guilty of being a tad too monochromatic and a chorus of notables from Spike Lee to Michael Moore are…
View More American Dreams, Canadian Realities: A Night at the OscarsAs the Palm Springs International Film Festival wraps up and Thursday’s Oscar nominations loom, I remember the words of my old friend Paolo Consigilio. The…
View More Invisible Screens And New Horizons in Palm SpringsLike the Southeast Asian island nation itself, Taiwan’s film industry is small, and often overshadowed by international competitors. Despite its size, the industry and some…
View More Introducing Taiwanese Film to Canadian AudiencesWhen Canadian filmmaker Elisa Paloschi decided to embark on a new film project in India, documenting the life of Karnataka’s first female taxi driver, she…
View More Film Festival Captures Rich Diversity of Asia