{"id":125539,"date":"2022-11-11T14:31:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T19:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=125539"},"modified":"2022-11-11T14:31:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T19:31:02","slug":"reel-asian-launches-first-in-person-film-festival-since-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/reel-asian-launches-first-in-person-film-festival-since-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Reel Asian launches first in-person film festival since 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival returns to full in-person screenings for the first time since 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 26th iteration of the festival is running now from Nov.9 to to 20 with both in-person and online screenings available for the entire lineup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 and 2021 festivals were mostly online with the exception of select screenings.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For this year, there will be 18 feature films and more than 40 short films. The lineup will include 10 Asian-Canadian films.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other programming includes the So You Think You Can Pitch competition and the Reel Ideas Industry Conference.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_126519\" style=\"width: 443px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-126519\" class=\" wp-image-126519\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/New-Ho-Queen-500x454.png\" alt=\"A person with mixing boards and a laptop on a table. A neon red sign is glowing behind them.\" width=\"433\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/New-Ho-Queen-500x454.png 500w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/New-Ho-Queen-237x215.png 237w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/New-Ho-Queen.png 701w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-126519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reel Asian's launch party this month outlined what to expect from this year's lineup. The Toronto DJ New Ho Queen headlined the party. Photo by Daniel Centeno.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year, Reel Asian <a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/reel-asian-cinema-celebrates-25-years-with-in-person-opening-night\/\">had an in-person screening<\/a> for its opening night with Martin Edralin's <em>Islands<\/em>, a film about a Filipino man named Joshua, who copes with his shyness and yearns for a partner as his parents age.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year\u2019s opening night gala includes the screening of <em>Riceboy Sleeps<\/em>, a Korean-Canadian film about a single mother who is raising her young son in Canada with hopes of providing a better life for him than the one she left in South Korea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Riceboy Sleeps<\/em> is directed by Anthony Shim and debuted at the 2022 International Film Festival.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In-person screenings will be at the festival\u2019s usual locations, including the TIFF Bell LightBox and the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More details to come.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Listen to CJRU's coverage of the Reel Asian International Film Festival's 2022 launch:<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival returns to full in-person screenings for the first time since 2019.\u00a0 The 26th iteration of the festival is running now from Nov.9 to to 20 with both in-person and online screenings available for the entire lineup. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 and 2021 festivals were mostly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":126517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[20629,4569,10634,20630,20628],"radio":[1380],"origine":[267,269,273],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125539"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126521,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125539\/revisions\/126521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125539"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=125539"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=125539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}