Anti-Asian Racism and Community Arts Activism
📆 FRI OCT 8, 2021
🕙 10:00am-11:00AM EDT
📍 ZOOM
A symposium co-hosted by the Media Studies, Journalism and Digital Cultures Program in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media and the Toronto REEL Asian International Film Festival.
Members of the Toronto REEL Asian International Film Festival will reflect on how community arts organizations work to resist discrimination and how they bring complicated stories about Asia to Asian North American audiences. This event will be a great opportunity for all ACM students who want to enhance their perception of the ever-changing media industry. For those of you who have a desire to communicate directly with the members of the Festival, there will be a chance to participate in the Q&A session at the end of the symposium.
| Guest Speakers |
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| Aram Siu Wai Collier - Head of Programming Aram is a filmmaker, educator, and film festival programmer. Based in Toronto, Aram is a mixed-race Asian Canadian/American (Chinese and English/Dutch/German) and a San Francisco native who has a BFA and MFA in Film Production from the University of California at Santa Cruz and York University respectively. |
| Jasmine Gui - Education & Industry Programmer Jasmine Gui is a Singaporean-born interdisciplinary artist and programmer living and working in Tkaronto. She is co-founder of TACLA, founder of Project 40 Collective, and managing editor at LooseLeaf magazine. Her work includes two chapbooks and writing featured in sineTheta, GUTS, The Spectatorial, Panorama Journal, Hart House Review amongst others. She did her MA in English, Diaspora, and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. Outside of the arts, she is widely known as a tea lady. |
| Chrisann Hessing Chrisann Hessing is a documentary filmmaker and impact producer based in Toronto. She has produced award-winning short films that have screened at Hot Docs, RIDM, Global Impact Film Festival, and the London Asian Film Festival. Her work has been supported by the Ontario Arts Council, Inspirit Foundation, BravoFACT! Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent and Telefilm Canada. Chrisann's latest film, Turning Tables, won Best Short Documentary at the 43rd American Indian Film Festival and has screened in over 30 film festivals internationally. She is passionate about using visual storytelling as a tool to educate, raise awareness, and inspire positive change, and has collaborated with a number of community arts organizations including TIFF, JAYU, Reel Asian, and This is Worldtown, an online magazine featuring art and first-person expression of women of colour storytellers. Currently, she is the Festival Manager at Breakthroughs Film Festival, the only festival in Canada devoted exclusively to short films made by emerging women & nonbinary directors. |