Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival

New from TIFF: The #TIFFNextWave Film Festival is back and available online and across Canada from Feb 1215. Bold new films are free for anyone under 25. Grab your free tickets between Feb 3-10 while quantities last. tiff.net/nextwave

Thank you to everyone who supported our advance screening of #Minari! Tickets sold out in 7 minutes and VIP packages were gone by the end of the first day. We were able to raise a total of $4638.52 through your generous donations which support our 25th Anniversary this fall! Thank you to our presentation partner Vancouver Asian Film Festival, distribution partners PLAN B, A24, Elevation Pictures, our lead event partner Korean Canadian Scholarship Foundation, and event sponsor...s York University’s Korean Office for Research & Education, York Centre for Asian Research, SoYoung, as well as VIP Experience Package sponsors Pan Asia Food Co., LTD, PAT Supermarket. Watch Minari when it becomes available to rent digitally and on demand across Canada on Feb 26! Become a Reel Asian member and get perks for what’s coming next! More fun ways to support #reelasian25 are on the way but you can always visit our website reelasian.com to donate directly today.

Single tickets are sold out (y'all are fast!) but VIP Experience Packages are still available to those in the eligible delivery service area. Get snacks inspired by the film delivered to your door! See website for details and to purchase! https://www.reelasian.com/events/minari/ All proceeds of the VIP Experience Package help support #reelasian25. Thank you to our presentation partner Vancouver Asian Film Festival, distribution partners PLAN B, A24, Elevation Pictures, our lead event partner Korean Canadian Scholarship Foundation, and event sponsors York University’s Korean Office for Research & Education, York Centre for Asian Research, SoYoung, as well as VIP Experience Package sponsors Pan Asia Food Co., LTD, PAT Supermarket

ICYMI: Minari is among the top leads for most Spirit Awards nominations including Best feature, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and more! Tickets and VIP Experience Packages for the advance Feb 5 screening of Minari, presented in partnership with Vancouver Asian Film Festival, are available to the public on Jan 29 at 10AM ET: https://www.reelasian.com/events/minari/

We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of the amazing Corky Lee. The unofficial photo laureate of the Asian American community and a true inspiration to many around the world.

Canadian Spotlight digital installations by Oliver Husain, Sahar Te, and Howie Tsui are still online and free to visit. Check them out now! #reelasian24

Sunday, Nov 15 Live Event Schedule #reelasian24 Visit http://reelasian.com/live for the full daily live event schedule and to get tickets! Thank you to Toronto Sign Language Interpreter Service for supporting our live events with ASL interpretation.

ICYMI: Author Catherine Hernandez was recently on The Social and talked about our closing night event, a live script read of select scenes from the film adaptation of her popular and critically-acclaimed novel, Scarborough. Scarborough Film Live Script Read and Artist talk is tonight at 7PM EST! Get the first look at the highly-anticipated film. Tickets are still available at http://bit.ly/LIVESCRB24

Reel Ideas Symposium, our industry-focused panels begins today! Tickets and passes are still available. Get them while you can! Reel Ideas is open world-wide. #reelasian24

Programmer Kelly was on OMNI Television to talk all about the festival, especially our closing night event, Scarborough Live Script Read and Artist Talk! Tickets are still available at http://bit.ly/LIVESCRB24

REEL ASIAN AWARDS 2020

I DO MY WORK is a documentary about students at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music. They laugh, practice, and take tests while preparing for a concert celebrating 100 years of Afghanistan's independence. Ranging from five-year-olds to young adults, some are middle-class kids and others are orphans, and they come from Afghanistan's many ethnic groups. Glimpses of the dangerous realities of their world outside school are a reminder that children are often on the front ...lines of crises. But I DO MY WORK is also a reminder that children's spirits are at the forefront of change. I DO MY WORK will be available from Nov 12 to Nov 19. Ticket holders have access to bonus content of Reel Asian Programmer Mariam Zaidi's conversation with director Yosef Baraki. Tickets and festival passes are available now on reelasian.com! Thank you to our community supporters Small World Music and Farsi Cinema Center!

We'd like to thank our #reelasian24 jury for taking on the hard task of selecting the recipients of this year’s awards. Our features jury includes Carrianne Leung, Melissa Bisagni, and Danis Goulet; and our shorts jury includes Mandeq Hassan, Ammar Keshodia, and Fransiska Prihadi. The 2020 Reel Asian award winners will be revealed during our Awards Ceremony hosted by @laineygossip and @21sungelas on TODAY at 4:00PM (EST). Tune in on here on Facebook or at twitch.tv/reelasian! https://www.reelasian.com/festival-events/awards-ceremony/

Abundant with hope, desire, and resiliency, the RESURGENCE shorts programme makes a statement to queer histories, presents, and futuresin front of and behind the screen. The lineup includes: SAFE AMONG STARS by Jess X. Snow REVIVING THE ROOST by Vivek Shraya... BIND by Emory Chao Johnson GAY AS IN HAPPY: A QUEER ANTI-TRADEGY by Jordana Valerie Allen-Smith SUPER ZEE by Nathalie Younglai GOD’S DAUGHTER DANCES by Sungbin Byun RESURGENCE will be available from Nov 12 to Nov 19. Ticket holders will also have access to a live online Q&A with directors and special guests in attendance on Nov 13 at 8PM EST. ASL interpretation will be made available thanks to Toronto Sign Language Interpreter Services @tslisto. Thank you to our community supporter BIPOC TV & Film!

In Bassam Tariq’s MOGUL MOWGLI, a British Pakistani rapper, Zed played by Emmy Award-winning actor Riz Ahmed, is on the brink of his first international tour, but decides to fly home to the U.K. to reconnect with his family, only to find out his first big international break could be jeopardized by an unexpected and quickly debilitating autoimmune disease. Watch the trailer below. MOGUL MOWGLI will be available from Nov 12 to Nov 19. Accompanying Q&A with director Bassam Tariq will be available starting Nov 14. Thank you to National Bank for their support!

We're kicking off #reelasian24 with a bang! Party with us (digitally of course) on Nov 6 at 9PM (EDT) for our Zoom Festival Launch Party and fundraiser hosted in partnership with ISO Radio, New Ho Queen x Hot Pot Community, Ricecake, and Bubble_T. The night is jam packed with some of the best from coast to coast with DJ sets from Toronto faves Paul Chin, Roshanie, Discography x Lazy Suzn x Kai, and a drag performance from Ms. Nookie Galore. From the House of Rice in Vancou...ver, Bella will be DJing with performances by Maiden China, Kara Juku, Skim, and House Mother Shay Dior. Last but not least the imitable West Dakota joins us all the way from NYC! Show up and show out for a good time and a good cause Make sure to save this post because we'll be dropping the Zoom link into the comments and a day before the event. Entry is free. Donations and tipping our Drag Queens and drag performers is encouraged. Poster by Moe Pramanick

All merch purchases made on our online store come with complimentary postcards (and other goodies) featuring NEST by @kristan_lai while supplies last, so get them quick! Use them to write to your friends, family, and loved ones or keep it for yourself as a momento of #reelasian24. Shop the official festival merch line online at reelasian.com/store or in person with our official merch partner Secret Planet Print Shop (698 Coxwell Ave, Toronto)! Canada-wide shipping and local pick-up are available. Order before Nov 8 for complimentary GTA contactless drop-off just in time for the festival. Details and eligibility available at check-out.

From Montreal based director, Ky Nam Le Duc, THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD/LE MEILLEUR PAYS DU MONDE imagines a world where a right-wing government controls Quebec and closes its borders, pushing immigrants to leave. Widower Hiên lives a meager life running a dépanneur. Enticed by his daughter Phuong’s move to Vietnam, Hiên makes arrangements to leave everything behind. But when a neighbourhood boy is left under the temporary care of Phuong’s aimless Quebecois boyfriend, ...Hiên is driven to solve the mystery of the boy’s missing mother. THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD/LE MEILLEUR PAYS DU MONDE will be available from Nov 12 to Nov 19. Ticket holders will also have access to a live online Q&A with the director Ky Nam Le Duc on Nov 14 at 4:30pm EST. ASL interpretation will be made available thanks to the Toronto Sign Language Interpreter Service. Thank you to our community supporter Living Hyphen! Get your tickets now at https://bit.ly/dumonde24

Big news for little ones and ones with big kid hearts! Our free kid-friendly programming, WEE ASIAN, is going from a one-day event to an online 8-day extravaganza Nov 12 19 for #reelasian24, complete with a Wee Asian Youtube Arts Channel, new download + print colouring sheets, curated picture-book list from Type Books and of course a new lineup of short films like YUWOL! Register for your free tickets at reelasian.com/weeasian!

Presenting the first public update on the Codes of Contact project with an information session on Friday, Oct 30. Codes of Contact is an incubator for arts organizations engaged in the presentation of arts and cultural works. For a limited time, use code 'TestFestFree' for free tickets! Participating organizations include Subtle Technologies Trinity Square Video MUTEK Montréal Cinevolution Media Arts Tamil Archive Project FIVARS Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories Centre for Emerging Artists and DesignersOCAD University

Visit reelasian.com/box-office or the link in bio for all the details on tickets, passes, and membership. As always, discounts for seniors and students are available and new this year are discounted tickets for un(der)waged folks. There are also plenty of free programmes including our opening night presentation of DOWN A DARK STAIRWELL as well as our kid-friendly programme, WEE ASIAN. Hope you can join us. #reelasian24 is Nov 12 19!

Merch! We’ve got it. Shop the official #reelasian24 merch line at http://reelasian.com/store or in person at Secret Planet Print Shop (698 Coxwell Avenue)!

The 24th edition Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is going fully digital from Nov 12 19 with a large selection of programming available across C...anada unlike ever before. With over 60 films and creative works, there’s something for everyone to take part in from wherever you are. Full programming lineup and tickets are now available on www.reelasian.com. Details on availability across Canada and internationally vary by programme. #reelasian24 See more