Fish In Barrel

Salute to Asian Canadian Filmmakers

Screening Time
Saturday, May 29, 7:15pm

Film Trailer

Experimental / Canada / 2009 / 8 minutes
Director: Randall Lloyd Okita
Starring: Leif Nygard, Roberta Cenedese, Brendan Mcleod
Produced by Absitomen Media in association with Life Is Short Entertainment

A young man faces his demons as his struggle erupts into visions that question what lies below the surface.

Following the intricate and ethereal dream landscape he created in Machine with Wishbone, Randall Okita continues to demonstrate a keen ability to craft sculptural cinema that absorbs the viewer into a diaphanous world. In a film overflowing with symbolic imagery, dark undertones of a young man’s self-destruction are made beautiful through Okita’s water compositions.

Festival Entry and Award
Winner – Most Innovative Film, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival 2009
Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival 2009

About Randall Lloyd Okita
Randall Okita was born in Calgary, Alberta and now works in Vancouver and Toronto. Randall’s 2008 short film Machine with Wishbone has screened at festivals worldwide, winning awards in Brooklyn, Toronto, Winnipeg and Yorkton and is being broadcast on Bravo!, and as part of Jack Ofield’s prestigious showcase: The Short List. In 2008 Randall developed and produced children’s program On Your Feet, now airing on Treehouse TV, and served as associate producer on Dare to Care, a documentary about North American educational philosophy, distributed by the National Film Board. Randall is currently completing a dramatic film with the Canadian Film Centre, and in post-production on A World Outside, a feature-length documentary about residential schools in Northern India.