Asian Heritage Month Movies Week

Watch Movies online using Zoom (Download zoom on your device ahead of time) Starting from Friday, May 21st to Thursday May 27th, 2021 Time: 07:00 pm – 09:00 pm Register in advance through https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ahm-movies-week-tickets-156182689629 May 21, 2021 Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story Japanese May 22, 2021 The Namesake East Indian May 23, 2021 Everything Will Be Chinese May 24, 2021 Minari Korean May 25, 2021 Becoming Labrador Filipino May 26, 2021 Tigertail Chinese May 27, 2021 Discussion Session Chinese Canadian filmmakers Li Dong will be facilitator for the AHM Movie discussion session on May 27, 7-9pm. Li Dong is the son of Dr. Qiuyan Li who has been working in KGH for many years and still working on the first line today. He wrote, directed and produced the movie Stealing School, depicting a story of a female university student of Chinese origin fighting unfair school treatment. The film revealed anti-Asian racism in the campus. This is the link showing video record of the CTV Social interviewed the filmmaker Li Dong: ‘Stealing School’ tackles white privilege and anti-Asian racism head-on | The Social The AHM Okanagan committee will award a prize of $100 gift card to the speaker who present best comments at this movie discussion session. All virtual movie activities are free and open to general public. Movies Review 1. Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story Japanese This feature-length documentary tells the story of the Asahi baseball team. In pre-World War II Vancouver, the team was unbeatable, winning the Pacific Northwest Championship for five straight years. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, all persons of Japanese descent in Canada were sent to internment camps. 2. Everything Will Be China This feature documentary by Sundance award-winning director Julia Kwan captures the subtle nuances of a culturally diverse neighbourhood—Vancouver’s once-thriving Chinatown—in the midst of a transformation that plays out across many ethnic enclaves in North America. The community’s oldest and newest members offer their intimate perspectives on the shifting landscape as they reflect on change, memory and legacy. Night and day, a neon sign that reads “EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT” looms over Chinatown. Everything is going to be alright. The big question is—for whom? 3. The Namesake India Ashima and Ashoke, immigrant Bengali parents, try to adjust to life in America, while Gogol, their son, tries to find his identity and choose between the two worlds. 4. Becoming Labrador Philippine In the stark Labrador interior, a growing number of Filipino workers have recently landed in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, travelling halfway around the world for jobs they hope will offer their families new opportunities and a better life. Becoming Labrador follows a handful of those women and men as they make a place for themselves in Labrador while dealing with the unexpected costs of living far from their family. 5. Minari Korea A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home. 6. Tigertail China Years of monotonous work and a loveless marriage turns a once vibrant man into a shell of his former self. 7. Discussion Session