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Reel Asian Film Festival 2012 Celebrating Cinema from Here To Reel Asian Film Festival 2012: Celebrating cinema from here to Kashmir - thestar.com 21/11/12 1:52 PM Wednesday, November 21, 2012 Connect with Facebook | Login | Register Search thestar.com 5°C Forecast Traffic thestar.com web find a business advanced search full text article archive Home News GTA Opinion Business Sports Entertainment Life Travel Columns Blogs More Autos Careers Classifieds Deaths Rentals HOT TOPICS GAZA CONFLICT BLUE JAYS GREY CUP E-READS AUTISM PARKING FINES SANTA CLAUS FUND CRIME MAPS ROB FORD Home Entertainment Movies Inside thestar.com Bomb blast hits Tel Aviv Dog bite victim seeks Should lawyer pay Trump Hotelʼs troubles Is she an ʻice cold bus animal's death rudeness? mounting murdererʼ Reel Asian Film Festival 2012: Celebrating cinema - Advertisement - from here to Kashmir Published on Friday November 02, 2012 Laura Kane Staff Reporter 1 of 2 First Time, a heartfelt love story by Beijing-based director Han Yan, kicks off the festival at the opening gala Nov. 6. COURTESY REEL ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL Entertainment Video Recommend 32 http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/article/1281318--reel-asian-film-festival-2012-celebrating-cinema-from-here-to-kashmir Page 1 of 5 Reel Asian Film Festival 2012: Celebrating cinema from here to Kashmir - thestar.com 21/11/12 1:52 PM With a sprawling, diverse continent of cinema to celebrate, the Reel Asian Film Festival has plenty of stories to tell. A portrait of a young Japanese-Hawaiian ukulele virtuoso. A joyful celebration of Filipino “prison dancers,” shaking a leg in the slammer. A gritty throwback to 1990s Hong Kong action classics. You’ll find all these films and more in the annual festival that embraces the incredible diversity of Asian cultures, with 60 films from 14 countries, running Nov. 6 to 17. “Since there is so much to see, we hope that each of these films has something you haven’t seen before,” said program director Aram Siu Wai Collier, adding that selecting films can be a challenge. “There’s such a diverse audience here in Toronto, from the general public to film fans to the more experimental crowd.” But until this year, one audience had been overlooked. A South Asian feature film — Valley of Saints, filmed in Kashmir — is included in the lineup for the first time. Collier said audiences and filmmakers had long questioned why the festival had no South Asian content. When Reel Asian launched in 1997, there was already a popular South Asian film festival, Desh Pardesh, in Toronto. When that became defunct in 2001, Reel Asian began to consider including South Asian films, Collier said. But it wasn’t until this year, inspired by Valley of Saints’ unique story and strong showing at Sundance, where it won an audience award and the Alfred P. Sloan Film Prize, that they finally made the leap. The Star on Twitter StarEntertain / Stargazing: Bad Sex in fiction: “I think in general South Asian content is starting to be seen more in an Asian-American Here are the nominees http://t.co/GtrVMlRl space in North America,” said Musa Syeed, Valley of Saints director. “The identity is 37 minutes ago becoming bigger and more inclusive, which is great.” StarEntertain / Old Man Luedecke, banjo star, picked his instrument well: Gifted quick The film is a romance in which the polluted Dal Lake becomes an allegory for Kashmir as a musician, playing Toronto Nov. 22, found ... whole. While Syeed was filming in the troubled region in fall 2010, he was caught in one of http://t.co/5NH6uwwm the worst outbreaks of violence in a decade. 44 minutes ago StarEntertain / Corb Lund brings us his “I wanted to tell a story that was more human, about how people really experience that western world: Rootsy troubadour has hit conflict on a daily basis,” he said. “They still live their lives. They have meaningful album, crack band and distinct outlook to show relationships and friendships. There is beauty amid destruction.” ... http://t.co/l3cCWpWs 44 minutes ago This year’s festival also features a greater emphasis on international content, with award- StarEntertain / Why the moviegoing experience winners from China, South Korea, Taiwan and the U.S. is not as advertised: Macfarlane: Our enthusiasm for a movie diminishes with each ... Hong Kong/Chinese love story First Time kicks off the festival at the opening gala Nov. 6. http://t.co/nfJkutmv Documentary Seeking Asian Female tells a very different love story: about a middle-aged 12 hours ago white man seeking a so-called “sweet, subservient” Asian bride. Follow us on Twitter Reel Asian’s first-ever 3D feature, A Fish,uses the medium to evoke an uncanny sense of the spirit world. Then there’s Cold Steel, a fun action-packed throwback to Hong Kong classics like Hard Boiled and A Better Tomorrow. 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