Japanese Animation Night 

Time:    7pm – 10:00pm

Venue:  Richmond Cultural Centre (7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond BC) 

Following last year’s extreme success, Japanese Animation Night will be back this year at the October event of the Monthly Film Series.

We will show one internationally acclaimed Japanese animated science fiction film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. This light hearted, inspiring, and craftily excellent film tells a story of a high school girl who inadvertently gains the power to travel through time and begins using it frivolously to fix problems. Ever since its release, the film has won numerous awards, including the Japan Academy Prize for Animation in 2006.

For detailed production information, please check www.animenewsnetwork.com

A complete dubbed English version of the film will be screened on the night. The English version was produced in Vancouver by Canadian company Ocean Productions Inc.

Confirmed Staff and the voice actors to be attending the screening: 

Voice Actors:
Andrew Francis – CHIAKI
Emily Hirst – MAKOTO
Saffron Henderson – MAKOTO’S AUNT

Ocean Productions staff:
Diana Gage – Producer
Keith Goddard – Audio supervisor and mixer of the show

About Ocean Productions:
Ocean is a pre and post production company specializing in animation. Since 1992, Ocean has worked on over 6,000 ½ hour episodes, 40 feature films, 20 video games, and countless specials and promos, and provides services such as translation, script writing, English adaptations, voice recording, original music scores, sound FX and video production.
Some of the dubbing animation properties we’ve worked on include Ranma ½, InuYasha, the Dragonball series, Death Note, Pretty Cure, Ghost in the Shell, the many Gundam series and of course The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.



Ocean also does voice recording and post production for some original North American projects such as the recent Marvel Lions Gate DVD specials Next Avengers: Heros of Tomorrow, Hulk vs Thor, Hulk vs Wolverine, and TV series such as The Fantastic Four, X-Men Evolution and Iron Man. Recently Ocean had the opportunity to work on the two live action Death Note movies.

 This event will be hosted by Edmund Yee.

Edmund Yee is a staff member for Anime Evolution , Vancouver’s annual Japanese animation convention and Asian pop cultural festival. He has been in interested in animation ever since he was a child watching Disney and Warner Brothers shows. Edmund encountered animation from Japan when he was a teenager which expanded his interest in the possibilities of animation. Edmund has discovered that animation doesn’t have to be for children. It can be aimed at different age groups and cover a wide range of stories.

Time:     7pm – 9:30pm 

Venue:   Richmond Cultural Centre (7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond BC) 

WITH OR WITHOUT YOU 家好月圓

Short | Taiwan | 2009 | 30 mins | Dir. CHOU She-Wei | Mandarin, Taiwanese & Eng Subtitles  劇情短片 ｜台灣 ｜2009 ｜30 mins | 導演：周旭薇｜ 國、台語、英文字幕

  A daughter sees her recently deceased mother in a dream. The mother does not want to be buried beside   her husband. But why? There turns out to be a reason.

 During a funeral ceremony, a not all that bright young man seems to fall asleep, but in fact he’s more    involved than the rest. Through his body, a soul makes contact with life and the hidden past of the  family is finally revealed.

 The maker wanted to focus attention on the position of women in her mother’s generation

Awards & Festival Selection:
Asia Short Film Jury Award, International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul, 2009, International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2009

劇情簡介：

兄弟姊妹回到鄉下，處理母親的後事，商量著要不要和父親合葬，么妹卻連續數夜夢到母親託夢拒絕與父親合葬。回首往事，再度浮現母親生前在家中，所承受父親的男性暴力陰影。

參展／得獎記錄：

2009 鹿特丹影展入圍
2009 首爾女性影展亞洲短片競賽評審團大獎

關於導演：

紐約大學藝術碩士，目前為自由影像紀錄工作者。曾擔任影評專欄作家、紀錄片雙年展評審、文化大學、實踐大學講師、電影《推手》（1991）副導等。

GRANDMA’S HAIRPIN 銀簪子

Documentary | Taiwan | 2000 | 90 mins | Dir. HSIAO Chu-Chen | Madarine & Eng subtitles  紀錄片 ｜台灣 ｜2000 ｜90 mins | 導演：蕭菊貞 ｜ 國語、英文字幕

  This stunning documentary captures the unique life stories of veterans who are among some    500,000 soldiers who left their families and followed Chiang Kai-shek’s retreat to Taiwan in  1949, while in their early 20s or late teens. When the government finally lifted the ban on  private visits to China about 40 years later, they found themselves in an awkward limbo where  they could no longer adapt themselves to living in China, while putting down their roots in  Taiwan also proved to be challenging.

Awards & Festival Selection:
Best Documentary, Golden Horse Awards, 2000. Taiwan Awards, Taiwan International Documentary Festival, 2000, Seoul International Film Festival, Asian Pacific Film Festival, Amsterdam International Documentary Festival, The 51st Asian Pacific Film Festival.

劇情簡介：

1949年前後，國民政府從大陸撤退來台，帶了六十萬大軍，他們以為不久之後就可以反攻大陸回家了，沒想到一待四十年，兩岸才開放。於是，這群老兵成為台灣與大陸間最尷尬的一群人！家，歸不得，不可求。 作者的父親也是老兵。奶奶的一支銀簪子，讓作者走進了父親的世界，和許多老兵伯伯們的深深思念…。

參展／得獎記錄：

台灣國際紀錄片雙年展台灣獎、金馬獎最佳紀錄片入圍
2000 日本山形紀錄片、亞太影展入圍

關於導演：

1994年畢業於清華大學經濟系。作品有《端午》（台灣一次盲人划龍丹的紀錄片）、《博盛，這孩子》、《陽光愛情》、《火鶴》、《血染的青春》、《短片成年禮》。曾任台灣二十年短片回顧展總策劃。

Make Friends / Make Fun / Make Trouble 

Date:     Wed, Sept. 23, 2009

Time:     7pm – 9:30pm

Venue:  Langara College, 100 West 49th Ave, Vancouver 

Presented by:   Vancouver Peak Oil,   Village Vancouver
Sponsored by:   Cinevolution Media Arts Society 

 About the Film (www.howtoboilafrog.com):

 “How to Boil a Frog” is a comedic documentary about a dad trying to save civilization for his daughter, that presents an overview of the Big Mess we’re in as well as a set of personal solutions that will actually make a difference, and make your life better now.

About the Director:  

 Jon Cooksey is a writer/producer for TV and movies; his most recent work as a showrunner was on the dramedy series “The Best Years”, which will air on Global beginning April 21, 2009. He’s currently working with Rob Stewart (director/writer/producer of the film “Sharkwater”) on the development of two new theatrical features. Jon’s focus on environmental, energy and economic issues began in 2006, when he decided he was going to have to take personal action to make sure his daughter didn’t end up living on a raft with the last polar bear. He set out to make the documentary “How to Boil a Frog”, which has evolved into an eco-comedy about overshoot, and its various symptoms (global warming, peak oil, overpopulation, the war on nature, income inequality, and so on).

 In the process of making the documentary (currently in the rough cut phase), Jon has interviewed dozens of experts in climatology, sustainability, economics, energy, journalism and many other areas, and also started the movement to save civilization online with the How to Boil a Frog website, at www.howtoboilafrog.com. In addition to offering up youtube-sized mini-documentaries and chunks of his interviews, the website offers a variety of entertaining resources and a chance for people to participate by sharing their own feelings about the mess we’re in and what they think our chances are.

 The process has also led Jon into various kinds of activism; at present he’s focused on getting Vancouver prepared for peak oil with the formation of the Vancouver Peak Oil Executive, which will be working with UBC, other NGO’s, and the Vancouver city government on a variety of projects.

Time: Thursday August 27 – Sunday August 30

 Venue:  Vancity  Theatre

 Supported by Cinevolution Media Arts Society. 

   One way to better understand Taiwan is through the lens of movie   directors.TAIWANfest is introducing a few highly acclaimed movies from Taiwan into our programming, such as Island Etude, Orz Boys and 1895. These movies depict different journeys people take on to realize their dreams. Along the way, they fell, they learned, they fought but they also had fun and never gave up. Be it a cyclist finding himself in a lone journey touring the island of Taiwan, or boys looking for a passage to another dimension, their passions and courage touch audiences everywhere.

The feature film, Cape No. 7 is no different. Interconnected by an undelivered love letter 60 years ago, the story portrays townspeople going after their dreams regardless of society’s pressure. Variety magazine commended “…It’s a celebration of all things Taiwanese…” The movie achieved Taipei box-office only second to Titanic. It has caught international attention and was official Taiwanese selection for 81st Academy awards. The movie went on to win many international awards including Hawaiian International Film Festival and the director won the Edward Yang new talent award in 3rd Asian film awards.

For detailed program and ticket price, please check here.