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10,000 Delusions (1999)

6min. Short, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker: Julia Kwan (Canada)
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Summary: Mia decides she cannot live in a Godless universe and embarks on a spiritual journey with an Eastern European Zen Master in training, only to discover that the path to enlightenment is market with potholes and the delusions are vast and plentiful. (Reel Asian)
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100 Butches #9: Ruby (2012)

1min. Animation, Colour
Language(s): Sound
Director/Filmmaker: Elisha Lim (Canada)
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Setting: Canada
Summary: A catholic convent schoolgirl remembers her first gay crush. (CFMDC)
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100 Crushes Chapter 6: They (2014)

2min. Short, Colour
Language(s): English
Director/Filmmaker: Elisha Lim (Canada)
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Trailer/Excerpt/Film: Film
Awards: The director's feelings of envy and resentment of a roommate's pronoun-of-choice eventually evolve into delight in one simple word. This freedom allows for new embodiments of gender—as beautiful and_ strange as a unicorn, a pair of wings or a bouquet of roses. (cfmdc.org)
Setting: Canada
Summary: "When I was a kid in Singapore, the same person served me chicken rice every day. I didn't know if that person was a man or a woman, and that was awesome." (CFMDC
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1000 cumshorts (2003)

1min. Other, Colour
Language(s): English
Director/Filmmaker: Wayne Yung (Canada)
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Setting: Canada, Germany
Summary: A fast-paced meditation on race and gay pornography. (wayneyung.com)
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15 Ugly Sisters (2004)

81min. Drama, Colour
Language(s): English
Director/Filmmaker: Bashar Shbib (Syria)
Production Company: Oneira Pictures International
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Summary: 15 Ugly Sisters is a film full of poetry that explores themes of love, attraction and moral bonds between human beings. (www.oneira.com)
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30 Day Promise (2009)

8min. Drama, Colour
Language(s): Tagalog
Director/Filmmaker: Xia Lee (China)
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Setting: Canada
Summary: Disgruntled immigrant Vincent comes to terms with his painful memories of heartbreak one autumn evening. (IMDb)
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50/Fifty (2006)

3min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker: Jane Kim (Canada)
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Using old home movies and hand-processed film, Kim pays homage to the memory of her father, who passed away when she was young.

Source: Reel Asian

 

 

57 Day Promise (2009)

4min Experimental, Black and White
Language(s): English
Director/Filmmaker: Sharlene Bamboat (Pakistan)
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Setting: Canada
Summary: This short film is about a girl who is obsessed with her vaginal odour. She tries different common methods of getting rid of her odour, but to no avail. In the end she decides to take drastic measures. (vimeo.com)
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5ive Girls (2006)

95min. Horror, Colour
Language(s): English
Director/Filmmaker: Warren P. Sonoda
Production Company: Alliance/Sony Pictures
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Setting: Canada
Summary: Five wayward teenage girls are sent to a desolate reformatory and discover they all possess unique powers to battle the ancient demon, Legion, which holds thrall over the sinister institution and its well-kept secrets. (shootgoodfilms.blogspot.com)
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5x90: The Wake (2005)

10min Experimental, Colour
Language(s): English, Korean
Director/Filmmaker: Samuel Kiehon Lee (Canada)
Production Company: Alliance/Sony Pictures
Trailer/Excerpt/Film: Film
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Setting: Canada
Summary: Award winning experimental film about the author's own funeral. (Samuel Kiehon Lee)
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60 Unit: Bruise (1976)

5min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker: Paul Wong & Ken Fletcher (Canada)
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Summary: In Wong's first colour videotape, Ken Fletcher draws several milliliters of blood from his arm and injects the syringe into Paul Wong's naked back. Focusing on the purple bruise that slowly spreads over Wong's skin, the video was originally conceived as a sort of homoerotic blood-brother performance that indirectly referenced drug use. But now after more than 20 years of the AIDS epidemic, this dangerous mixing of bodily fluids takes on a more disturbing complexity.
Source: Reel Asian

 

7 Day Activity (1977)

9min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker: Paul Wong (Canada)
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Summary: Wong self-consciously examines himself through seven days of facial treatments for acne.
Source: Reel Asian

 

8th Avenue (2010)

2min. Uncategorized, Colour
Language(s): English, Korean
Director/Filmmaker: Paul Wong (Canada)
Production Company: Paul Wong Projects
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Setting: United States
Summary: Recorded in New York City at the corner of 8th Ave and 26th St, a car in the middle of the road catches fire and blows up. 8th Ave was part of ZOOOOM, a curated selection of works that was presented as one of Wong's five site-specific projects commissioned by the City Of Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Art Program. (paulwongprojects.com)
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The 8.5 minute Bi Racial Biogrpahy of Bianca Smith (2007)

9min. Uncategorized
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Director/Filmmaker: Naomi Ward (Canada)
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Summary: What are you: Chinese? Filipino? Moroccan? Burmese? Korean? Gypsy? Guatemalan? Thai? Tibetan? Maori? Spanish? Cuban? Japanese??? Inspired by her experiences growing up, Ward reflects on what feels like a lifetime of never ending questions about her ethnic identity.
Source: Reel Asian

 

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