As part of {RE}DEFINED, each documentary will not exceed 10 minutes and creators will have a fully financed budget from the NFB.
Birdy choreographer Lai Hung-chung was inspired by an Alan Parker film starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage.
Laurie Townshend won the Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary for her film about spoken-word artist Staceyann Chin.
Chen will deliver a talk called “Mending Generational Gaps Through Music” at the Jade Music Fest on Saturday (November 8).
Montréal, Ma Belle, which stars Charlotte Aubin and Joan Chen, won the RBC Best Canadian Feature Award.
Lovelee studied classical piano and has a degree in jazz vocals but nowadays, she transforms pain into powerful anthems.
With original works like “RICE!”, “Like Sunshine”, and “New York to Taipei”, the Toronto-based artist is creating a sound all his own.
Thien is author of The Book of Records; it’s about people from different centuries who take refuge at a staging post between migrations.
The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival will feature Akashi at its Centrepiece Gala Presentation on November 9.
Veena Yamano plays a fourth-generation Japanese Canadian in her 20s who lands in Tokyo in “Tears Burn to Ash”.
Arts for Canadians Tomorrow Society created Toronto Spark to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
Arts for Canadians Tomorrow Society is grateful to be held on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, that is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We acknowledge our privilege to be gathered on this land, and commit to work with and be respectful to the Indigenous peoples whose arts and stories inspire us to bring communities together.
