The article talks about the 2006 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, its program, the future of the festival as well as the North American Asian cinema in general. The author provides descriptions of some of the films that can be seen during the festival: Richard Fung's Sea in the Blood, Samual Kiehoon Lee's 5x90: The Wake, Alison S. M. Kobayashi's Dan Carter, and Ho Tam's Books of James as well as the new initiatives undertaken by the festival: an industry series and website called RAfilms.ca.