Play it Loud! is a feature documentary that tells the little-known story of how Jamaican music became a critical and unlikely part of Canadian culture. The film reveals a social and cultural migration that made Canada a mecca for Jamaican music, recognized around the world, but little heralded at home. This story is told… ⊕

Something from there is a short film on the substance of our original lands. How does connection to land change after uprooting and in diaspora? How does matter come to embody our memories and defy official histories? These are some of the open-ended questions asked in this reflection on the complicated implications of wanting… ⊕

What can we discover in the landscape of our bodies? As queer trans and gender non-conforming children of the Vietnamese diaspora, we are fragmented at the crossroads of being displaced from not only a sense of belonging to our ancestral land, but also our own bodies which are conditioned by society to stray away from our most… ⊕

to boyhood, i never knew him is a short experimental film featuring a distorted poem and archive footage from 2006 - 2010. Words from a transgender man float to the surface of the screen as the blurry memories play, displaying how only fragments of what is remembered exists. The piece is a love letter to the filmmaker’s… ⊕

In the form of a visual & written poetic letter, Hoa is dedicated to my bà nội, from me, a Vietnamese grandchild. In Vietnamese, “hoa” means flower. It also is the first name of the filmmaker's bà nội (paternal grandmother). Before developing her memory disorders, the director's… ⊕