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| Showtimes | Sun March 14 1:15 PM / KAB314A |
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In this collection of women’s shorts, the filmmakers examine complex issues of Asian women’s identity by exploiting, reappropriating and challenging cultural stereotypes and assumptions. TRT: 87 mins
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Canada, 1998, 12 mins, 16mm, color, English & Korean;
Director Jane E. KIM (in person)
A Korean Canadian schoolgirl curious to venture into the adult world discovers its ugliness and truths.
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Canada, 1998, 20 mins, 16mm, color, English;
Director Zarqa NAWAZ
An aspiring young Muslim writer contrives her own death threat to orchestrate a media sensation for her unpublished novel, exploiting cultural stereotypes that ultimately backfire against her.
Canada, 1998, 5 mins, 16mm, color/b&w, English;
Director Carolynne HEW
This lush experimental short combines color and black-and-white imagery, layered with sounds of beating hearts and children’s laughter.
USA, 1997, 10 mins, video, color, English;
Directors Shashwati TALUKDAR, Dina MENDROS
This humorous short mixes real news transcripts and testimony from self-proclaimed cultural "experts," parodying the racism and xenophobia of broadcast journalism through the exposè of fictional criminal Charles Sobhraj.
India/USA, 1999, 40 mins, 35mm, color, Tulu w/e.s.;
Director Anula SHETTY (in person)
In a house inhabited by living spirits, the struggles of three generations of Indian women are told and secrets are revealed, leading to self-discovery for each of the women.
—Josephine Yeh
Presented with Reel Women