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Spanglish
… directed by James L Brooks (New Jersey, USA) “A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a celebrated...
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Sin Nombre
… directed by Cary Fukunaga (Oakland, California, USA) ============================= I blogged a documentary called, “Which Way Home” a while back. I imagine this feature film is probably a live...
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Statue
…by Glenn Marshall (Belfast, Ireland) “What began as a play on the visual connection between iconic statues, became an animation using anamorphosis (the optical illusion effect used in 3d street art),...
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Real Stories from Toronto #2,345,678 – Farming: Death and Simplicity
Yeah when you were a kid we had a chance to move to the rural areas in the Philippines. “So, why didn’t we?” But what of you? What are you going to get there? You’re not going to reach high places!...
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No Escape
…directed John Erick Dowdle (St. Paul, Minnesota, USA) ==================== This was intense. I rarely watch movies these days and get emotionally involved. I still watch superhero films here and...
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Real Stories from Toronto #1,244,785 – Culture Shock: Minus Sixty
What’s your background? “Russian. I’ve been living here 6 years.” Oh cool. How are you finding Toronto so far? “It’s really overcrowded.” WHAT?!? “Well look” (points outside – we were driving...
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Real Stories from Toronto #2,444,865 – Canadian Experience: Three Days Later
“I have had a lot of experience from my country, but I had a hard time at first. I went to so many interviews and they all kept telling me that I needed ‘Canadian Experience.’ In one of the interviews...
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My Mother’s Daughter
==================== I woke up sick today (food poisoning – I rarely eat Filipino food these days but when I do, it’s like my body’s not that used to it anymore so I can only have it occasionally)… I...
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Real Stories from the World #0,000,000 – I Got it From My Mama
I’m 32 and people around me are getting married, buying a house, and popping babies and shit. Meanwhile, I’m here, not even close nor ready for any of those things. My younger cousin, who’s in...
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Real Stories from Toronto #1,244,899 – Tamil: Diaspora
I was hanging out with some brown college dude. What’s your breed? “Tamil.” Oh, yeah. That’s East Indian, yeah? “Yeah.” It’s like Jewish people, ya? Like, it’s an ethnicity, but at the same time like...
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