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This screening features 2 films. Toggle between film descriptions by scrolling and clicking on the film title buttons on the top right.
On the evening of the 1987 ‘Easter Epic’ hockey playoff game, a young Cambodian girl grapples with her Canadian identity in a small town in rural Ontario.
Director Biography - Alejandro Yoshizawa, Y-Dang Troeung
Alejandro Yoshizawa:
Alejandro Yoshizawa is a Vancouver-based filmmaker specializing in grassroots and marginalized people's stories, oral histories, and community documentaries. His films include the award-winning All Our Father's Relations (2016).
Y-Dang Troeung (張依蘭) (ទ្រឿងអ៊ីដាង) (pronouns: she/her/hers) was a writer and scholar based in Vancouver, who passed away in Fall 2022 of pancreatic cancer. She was an Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, and was an Associate Editor of the journal Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism Review and a Faculty Affiliate of the Asian Canadian Studies and Migration Program (ACAM). She researched and taught in the fields of transnational Asian literatures, critical refugee studies, transpacific Cold War studies, and critical disability studies.
- Year2024
- Runtime15 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryCanada
- GenreDrama, Autobiographical, Canadian, History, Immigrant, Cambodia
- DirectorAlejandro Yoshizawa, Y-Dang Troeung
- ScreenwriterYumiko Fujiwara
- CastMikayla Lagman, Winson Won, Quynh-Mi Thi Nguyen
- CinematographerChris Joys
- EditorSam Mohseni
This screening features 2 films. Toggle between film descriptions by scrolling and clicking on the film title buttons on the top right.
On the evening of the 1987 ‘Easter Epic’ hockey playoff game, a young Cambodian girl grapples with her Canadian identity in a small town in rural Ontario.
Director Biography - Alejandro Yoshizawa, Y-Dang Troeung
Alejandro Yoshizawa:
Alejandro Yoshizawa is a Vancouver-based filmmaker specializing in grassroots and marginalized people's stories, oral histories, and community documentaries. His films include the award-winning All Our Father's Relations (2016).
Y-Dang Troeung (張依蘭) (ទ្រឿងអ៊ីដាង) (pronouns: she/her/hers) was a writer and scholar based in Vancouver, who passed away in Fall 2022 of pancreatic cancer. She was an Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, and was an Associate Editor of the journal Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism Review and a Faculty Affiliate of the Asian Canadian Studies and Migration Program (ACAM). She researched and taught in the fields of transnational Asian literatures, critical refugee studies, transpacific Cold War studies, and critical disability studies.
- Year2024
- Runtime15 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryCanada
- GenreDrama, Autobiographical, Canadian, History, Immigrant, Cambodia
- DirectorAlejandro Yoshizawa, Y-Dang Troeung
- ScreenwriterYumiko Fujiwara
- CastMikayla Lagman, Winson Won, Quynh-Mi Thi Nguyen
- CinematographerChris Joys
- EditorSam Mohseni
