{"id":14259,"date":"2020-06-15T09:19:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T13:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitoakville.com\/?p=14259"},"modified":"2020-06-15T09:19:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T13:19:11","slug":"education-through-film-14-must-see-bipoc-stories-at-the-2020-offa-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.zarrtech.net\/visitoakville\/2020\/06\/education-through-film-14-must-see-bipoc-stories-at-the-2020-offa-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Education through Film: 14 must-see BIPOC stories at the 2020 OFFA Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/visitoakville.com\/events\/the-oakville-film-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakville Film Festival<\/a> has always provided a stage for diverse talents to shine through and this year is no different.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether it be comedy, drama, documentary or short format, there are plenty of ways to take in BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) stories through this year&#8217;s online screenings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keep reading below to learn more about these featured films:<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>I Am Here:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YbXTu3clen4\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"tenant-injected-html mb-2 text-gray-300\">\n<p>A young Syrian sister and brother, separated during the civil war, have a chance to be reunited years later through the power of poetry, persistence and friendship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q&amp;A<span class=\"block text-center\"><span class=\"block mt-1 text-xs\">\u00a0June 17, 2020 9:15 p.m. EDT: W<\/span><\/span>ith Amalia Williamson\/Matt Long (I am Here), Corey Mayne (Willa), Constance Hilton (Mute), Courtenay Lazorka (Online), Cathleen MacDonald (Deescalate) Sarah Gonyea (Cosmo), Mark Brombacher (The Paperboy), Amanda Wright and Gabriel Dinardo, Co-Directors (541: A Place for the Community), Alec J Macri (Dagwood\u2019s Brig)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0Amalia Williamson, Matt Long<\/p>\n<p>Writer:\u00a0Catrina Dygert, Matt Long, Paul Daniel Torres<\/p>\n<p>Cast: Shadia Shunnara, Alex Mousavi, Faly Mevamanana, Karie Richards, Victoria Murdoch, Alexandre Neves<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date and Time:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Available: June 17, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Runtime: 20 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Language: English<\/p>\n<p>Country: United States<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2><strong>Showstopper:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/351850418\" width=\"640\" height=\"337\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Anisha, an insecure model, rebels against her Mother&#8217;s wishes of becoming the showstopper in the upcoming fashion show with her passion for boxing.<\/p>\n<p>Director &amp; Writer:\u00a0Jacquile Kambo<\/p>\n<p>Cast:\u00a0Ziyana Vasaya, Chandni Appadurai, Gunjan Kundhal, Shastina Kumar, Haniel Glow<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date and Time:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Available: June 18, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Runtime: 12 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Language: English<\/p>\n<p>Country: Canada<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Our Home:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/416172485\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A Latin American family is celebrating the birthday of their youngest child until they get rudely interrupted by two immigration officers.<\/p>\n<p>Director &amp; Writer: Andy Alvarez<\/p>\n<p>Cast: Magda Ochoa, Jose Vargas Caballero, Sabrina Miniaci, Sara Gutierrez, Max Valdieso-Kudell, Montserrat Powell, Alejandro Herrera, Shonna Morgan, Robert L Duncan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date and Time:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Available: June 18, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Runtime: 10 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Language: English<\/p>\n<p>Country: Canada<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Queen of the Morning Calm:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ccCxF6ef3Z8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tina Jung (of CBC\u2019s Kim\u2019s Convenience) gives a moving performance as Debra, a mother struggling to balance maintaining her dignity with the needs of her daughter, Mona, and her love for Mona&#8217;s semi-absent addict father. Inspired by events in her own life, director Gloria Ui Young Kim spent eleven years getting this story from script to screen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tenant-injected-html mb-2 text-gray-300\">\n<p><em>Queen of the Morning Calm<\/em> is a refreshing and triumphant presentation of a young woman\u2019s resolve to escape a seemingly interminable cycle of poverty and abuse &#8211; a cycle that sadly dominates the experience of so many immigrant sex workers in Canada. It holds the potential to stimulate meaningful conversations about the exploitation of sex workers that has become rampant in Canada in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q&amp;A June 19, 2020, 9 p.m. ETD: Will follow film with Director Gloria Kim and lead actress Tina Jung.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director &amp; Writer: Gloria Kim<\/p>\n<p>Cast: Tina Jung, Eponine Lee, Jesse LaVercombe, Shaun Benson and Zahra Bentham<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date and Time:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Available: June 18, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Runtime: 87 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Language: English<\/p>\n<p>Country: Canada<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A Long Weekend with May Blossom:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/352420592\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"tenant-injected-html mb-2 text-gray-300\">\n<p>Two women with a different understanding of communication try to connect with each other.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Director &amp; Writer: Chorong Kim<\/p>\n<p>Cast: Darlene Tait, Sima Saxena<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date and Time:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Available: June 19, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Runtime: 6 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Language: English<\/p>\n<p>Country: Canada<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Tokens:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4AIxk-fQlIc\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tokens is an 8-part fun-loving, satirical comedy about the actors of an \u201con call casting\u201d agency specializing in diversity casting. Whoever is \u201con call\u201d is randomly dispatched to producers desperate to hit their diversity quotas, often in a role they least expect. Think Uber for actors. Betty the dispatcher is confident her actors can rise to the challenge and doesn\u2019t mind shaking up the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Director: Winnifred Jong<\/p>\n<p>Writers:\u00a0Winnifred Jong and\u00a0Trinni Franke<\/p>\n<p>Cast: Connie Wang, Shelley Thompson, Christina Song, Russell Yuen, Jesica Greco<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date and Time:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Available: June 19, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Runtime: 10 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Language: English<\/p>\n<p>Country: Canada<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Water Be Dammed&#8230;:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iR-ipP83Mys\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"tenant-injected-html mb-2 text-gray-300\">\n<p>We live on &#8220;the blue planet&#8221;, abundant with water. Yet, we are now facing a crisis created by decades of mismanagement, unlimited depletion and pollution of the earth&#8217;s water bodies, issues accelerated now by\u00a0climate change. So how did we reach this crisis point? Through the lens of Satluj river in Punjab, India, our documentary tells a story that by not following the four pillars of water sustainability \u2013 science, economics, governance AND spiritual connection, we have damned one of our most precious resources.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"tenant-injected-html mb-2 text-gray-300\">\n<p><strong>Q&amp;A\u00a0<span class=\"block text-center\"><span class=\"block mt-1 text-xs\">June 20, 2020, 12:15 p.m. EDT<\/span><\/span>: with Romila Verma (Writer\/Producer Water Be Dammed), Dir. Sebastien Pins (Traces), Dir. and writer Sarah Wray (Guardians of the Grasslands)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Director: Vanita Khanna<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date and Time:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Available: June 20, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Runtime: 35 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Language: English<\/p>\n<p>Country: Canada<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Yarne:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1p-PnXUEPrg\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"tenant-injected-html mb-2 text-gray-300\">\n<p>The money earned by 11-year-olds Sonam and Tashi for doing prayers is only enough to share one small Coke. Sonam is lucky to even get a sip before Tashi, the monastery bully, drinks the entire bottle. Yarne is an annual six-week period when Buddhist monks remain within the monastery grounds for focused study and practice, yet for child monks, it\u2019s more like house arrest. Tired of wasting his money, Sonam decides to save up every rupee he earns during Yarne to buy a soccer ball, but first he will have to stand up to Tashi.<\/p>\n<p>Director &amp; Writer: Andrew Krakower<\/p>\n<p>Cast:\u00a0Dawa Dorjee, Konchok Rangdol<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date and Time:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Available: June 20, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Runtime: 15 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Language: Nepali<\/p>\n<p>Country: United States<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\"><strong>Laura:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14261\" src=\"https:\/\/visitoakville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/06-11-2020-laura-.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.zarrtech.net\/visitoakville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/06-11-2020-laura-.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dev.zarrtech.net\/visitoakville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/06-11-2020-laura--203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"tenant-injected-html mb-2 text-gray-300\">\n<p>Laura, a young half Indigenous woman undergoes a conversation with her lawyer Mr. Wilson to determine how to present her case before the court. Mr. Wilson attempts to keep the process positive, but his ignorance begins to make Laura question her identity and her place in society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q&amp;A June 21, 2020, 9:15 p.m. ETD: with filmmakers Elle-M\u00e1ij\u00e1 Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn to follow the screening,\u00a0as well as short filmmakers Kaayla Whachell (Laura)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director &amp; Writer: Kaayla Whachell<\/p>\n<p>Cast: Farrah Hart, Lee Shorten, Tanner Collins<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date and Time:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Available: June 21, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Runtime: 14 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Language: English<\/p>\n<p>Country: Canada<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Tsi Teyoto:te: Even in the Silence:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1190\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14262\" src=\"https:\/\/visitoakville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/06-11-2020-even-in-the-silence.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.zarrtech.net\/visitoakville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/06-11-2020-even-in-the-silence.jpg 1190w, https:\/\/dev.zarrtech.net\/visitoakville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/06-11-2020-even-in-the-silence-300x101.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dev.zarrtech.net\/visitoakville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/06-11-2020-even-in-the-silence-768x258.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1190px) 100vw, 1190px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"tenant-injected-html mb-2 text-gray-300\">\n<p>A visual poem told entirely in Kanien&#8217;keha (Mohawk language) that examines the impacts of underage drinking in Indigenous communities and the struggle to overcome grief and past traumas through culture and traditional practices.<\/p>\n<p>Director &amp; Writer: Jonathan Elliott<\/p>\n<p>Cast: Chanin Lee, Andrew Hill<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date and Time:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Available: June 21, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Runtime: 4 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Language: Kanien&#8217;keha<\/p>\n<p>Country: Canada<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w33zJafKxTY\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"tenant-injected-html mb-2 text-gray-300\">\n<p>\u00c1ila, returning home emotionally tender and exhausted from a difficult appointment with her OB-GYN, finds a terrified, barefoot and heavily pregnant Rosie shivering out in the rain. Clearly in need, Rosie is paralyzed: caught between escaping her violent boyfriend heard screaming from across the street and having nowhere to go. Frightened by the escalating danger, \u00c1ila grabs Rosie and urges her to move quickly to the safety of \u00c1ila\u2019s nearby apartment. Thus begins a long, tense afternoon of bare instinct \u2013 both of survival and of motherhood\u2014as the two Indigenous women from very different backgrounds, seek some semblance of stability and safety for themselves and each other. A love poem to women, <em>The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open<\/em>\u00a0weaves a compellingly simple story around the complex themes of racialized female bodies, a country&#8217;s failure to support its most vulnerable youth, and the continuing effects of colonial violence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q&amp;A June 21, 2020, 9:15 p.m. ETD: with filmmakers Elle-M\u00e1ij\u00e1 Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn to follow the screening,\u00a0as well as short filmmakers Kaayla Whachell (Laura)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director &amp; Writer: Kathleen Hepburn, Elle-M\u00e1ij\u00e1 Tailfeathers<\/p>\n<p>Cast: Elle-M\u00e1ij\u00e1 Tailfeathers, Violet Nelson, Charlie Hannah, Barbara Eve Harris<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date and Time:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Available: June 21, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Runtime: 105 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Language: English<\/p>\n<p>Country: Canada<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Tangle:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/302729894\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"tenant-injected-html mb-2 text-gray-300\">\n<p><em>Tangle<\/em>\u00a0is about the people who lost their homes in the war and were forced to leave all their memories and loved ones behind. It is also about life and striving to survive on the geographical borders of hope and depression while reaching for all the things that can connect us to this water and land in spite of constantly getting ignored and interrupted.<\/p>\n<p>Director: Maliheh Gholamzadeh<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date and Time:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Available: June 22, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Runtime: 8 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Only Death Never Lies:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3KrbtMc6_jU\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"tenant-injected-html mb-2 text-gray-300\">\n<p>When a grandson escorts his beloved Iranian grandfather to a doctor\u2019s visit, they are told that the grandfather is terminally ill. The grandson needs to translate the bad news, but decides to bend the truth. By doing so he hopes he can keep him alive longer, but at the same time he has to carry the burden of his lie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q&amp;A<span class=\"block text-center\"><span class=\"block mt-1 text-xs\">\u00a0June 22, 2020 9:30 p.m. EDT:<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Filmmakers to follow the screening including Jaqueline Godbout (Cheat Meal), Florence Pelletier (Sainte- Tite), Dekel Berenson (Anna), Sam Yazdanpanna (Only Death Never Lies), Kristina Thomas (House of Balls), Carmen Puche More (La Benvinguda)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0Sam Yazdanpanna<\/p>\n<p>Writer:\u00a0David Henrichs<\/p>\n<p>Cast:\u00a0Ali Fardi, Hamid Reza Javdan, Monic Hendrickx<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date and Time:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Available: June 22, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Runtime: 15 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Language: Arabic<\/p>\n<p>Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of<\/p>\n<h2><strong>House of Balls:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/418622655\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A down on her luck law school dropout moves back home to Oakland after dumping her fianc\u00e9 in Chicago to discover a female dodgeball league that makes her face her biggest threat: herself.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"tenant-injected-html mb-2 text-gray-300\">\n<p><strong>Q&amp;A<span class=\"block text-center\"><span class=\"block mt-1 text-xs\">\u00a0June 22, 2020 9:30 p.m. EDT:<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Filmmakers to follow the screening including Jaqueline Godbout (Cheat Meal), Florence Pelletier (Sainte- Tite), Dekel Berenson (Anna), Sam Yazdanpanna (Only Death Never Lies), Kristina Thomas (House of Balls), Carmen Puche More (La Benvinguda)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Director &amp; Writer: Kristina Thomas<\/p>\n<p>Cast: Mariah Robinson, Grace LaRocca, Kaitlyn Jenkins, Maya Nalli, Maiya Jovan, Donavan Sanders<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date and Time:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Available: June 22, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Runtime: 9 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Language: English<\/p>\n<p>Country: United States<\/p>\n<p>For more information about films, showtimes and how the festival will operate online, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/offa.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offa.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay up-to-date with the latest in Oakville by subscribing to our monthly newsletter! 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