FascinAsian Film Festival

With one Asian film festival completed in 2021, FascinAsian announces that we will be having another film festival in May 2022! Plans are underway to host a film festival in Calgary at the same time as the Winnipeg-based festival, with events coordinated together. Watch for it as our planning and program is underway to deliver another great event.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2022

FascinAsian Film Festival is coming back May 13-15, 2022 !!

Early bird deadline is December 15, 2021

Film submission details: https://filmfreeway.com/FascinAsian

The FascinAsian Film Festival celebrates and promotes Asian perspectives, culture, and identity in film and media. The festival exists to highlight the talent of local, national, and international Asian actors, filmmakers, and content creators. We aim to create programming that inspires, educates, and brings the Asian-Canadian community together in appreciation of the art form and the collective effort by its valued members.

Annual
Asian Film
Festival

The first annual FascinAsian Film Festival (F3) started as part of Asian Heritage Month activities in 2017 as an annual Asian Film Night event and has grown to become a branded three-day festival held on May 28 – 30, 2021.

F3 was a successful virtual festival in 2021, with plans to hold its first in-person festival in May of 2022.

F3 is entirely organized and produced by a group of dedicated volunteers and is made possible by the generous support of corporate sponsors, public funders, and private donors.

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Vision

FascinAsian Film Festival envisions a world where North American Asian storytellers, performers, and other film & media creatives can have equal access to resources and opportunities to shape and enhance cultural understanding in an insightful and positive way.

Mission

FascinAsian is committed to promoting and celebrating Asian perspectives, culture and integrity in film and media. F3 works to foster understanding and appreciation of Asian arts and culture within the Canadian mosaic.

F3 aims to highlight the talent of local, national, and international Asian filmmakers, performers, and other media arts creatives.

F3 strives to create programming that inspires, educates, and brings the community together in appreciation of the artform and the collective effort by its members.

Goals

  • To share and highlight stories from the Asian diaspora and feature Asian talent from Canada and around the world.
  • To educate and inform audiences about the unique Asian-Manitoban, and Asian-Canadian experience.
  • To offer opportunities for education and training in film and media.
  • To create an inclusive, safe and fun environment for Asian artists to share and celebrate their work.
  • To create meaningful dialogue about issues of equal opportunity and equity in the media arts.
  • To build bridges within the community through partnerships and collaboration.
  • To facilitate a multi-day festival of events, supporting these goals.
  • To operate an organization that will be fiscally and ethically responsible and sustainable.

News &
Updates

President’s Message

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I am immensely proud to be announcing the first annual FascinAsian Film Festival in 2021. While it has been a difficult year for festivals and…

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Meet The Team

Alan Wong

PRESIDENT

Alan Wong is a founding member of the FascinAsian Film Festival and the Festival Manager of the Gimli Film Festival. He also serves as Vice-President of the ACTRA Manitoba branch council. Alan holds an Arts & Cultural Management Certificate from the University of Winnipeg and a Music degree from Brandon University.

Karen Remoto

VICE-PRESIDENT/PROGRAMMING

Karen Remoto is one of the co-founders of FascinAsian Film Festival and currently works as the Program Coordinator at Winnipeg Film Group. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film from University of Winnipeg and freelances as a boom operator on independent productions.

Judy Eng-Hum

DIRECTOR—CALGARY

Judy is an active member of the Calgary community and supporting the arts by volunteering and encouraging others to get involved. She is an advocate for entrepreneurship and business and mixed with her passion for advancing opportunities for youth and Asian talent she is excited to support the mandate of FascinASIAN as a board member and support the festival offerings in Calgary.

Jié Yang

SECRETARY/COMMUNICATIONS

Jié Yang has over 12 years combined experience in event planning, website design, and social media coordination with organizations such as the University of Manitoba Arts Student Council, Canadian Teochew Chinese Association of Manitoba, and the Asian Heritage Society of Manitoba. He is passionate about accurate representation in media.

Tommy Inthirath

TREASURER/TECHNICAL

Tommy Inthirath is a Laotian Canadian Producer, Editor and Videographer. He has worked on various union to non-union projects, ranging from music videos, commercials, and feature films. Tommy spends his free time on content creation for his YouTube and Instagram.

Jessica Gibson

BOARD MEMBER

Jessica has built a successful career as a film and television producer and production manager since transitioning from her role in front of the camera as an actor to behind the scenes over 10 years ago.

She has extensive experience managing televised live events, including the Aboriginal People’s Choice Awards and Indigenous Day Live. She was an associate producer on the award-winning We Were Children for the National Film Board and produced the short films Platypus (dir. Trevor Kristjanson) which received funding from BravoFact and Tides (dir. Rowan Grey) which received funding from Harold Greenberg Fund.

Yenny Trinh

BOARD MEMBER

Yenny Trinh is a practicing lawyer and is one of the founding partners at Mercado Trinh Law LLP. She has been practicing for the last 20 years in the areas of real estate law, corporate commercial law, immigration, and wills and estate. She was born in Vietnam and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1985. Except for two years spent in Toronto, she grew up and attended school in Winnipeg. At the University of Manitoba, she obtained her Bachelor of Science Degree majoring in Biochemistry and Microbiology and a Bachelor of Laws Degree.

Yenny is presently the President of the Asian Heritage Society of Manitoba, after being a long time board member. Over the years, she has been a board member of various non-profit and charitable organizations in Winnipeg, including The Free Vietnamese Association of Manitoba, Canadians Helping Kids in Vietnam, The Vietnamese Folk Dance Association of Manitoba, SCE Lifeworks Inc. and Innovative LIFE Options Inc.

Land
Acknowledgement

The FascinAsian Film Festival acknowledges that we live and work in the territories of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Dakota, Dene, and Oji-Cree Nations, and the heartland of the Metis people. Treaty 1, signed in 1871, took this territory from seven local Anishinaabe First Nations to make the land available for settler use and ownership. We thank the First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities that have cared for Turtle Island since the beginning. With this acknowledgment, we remind ourselves of discriminatory, racist, and colonial practices that have and continue to create barriers for Indigenous peoples and communities across Turtle Island.

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