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A street magician helps Kevin, a 12-year-old prodigy who attends university and lives on the fringe of an adult world, renew his sense of wonder and rediscover his childhood.

Tricia Lee graduated from York University and won the 2010 Reel Asian So You Think You Can Pitch Award, a Bravo!FACT grant, and the NFB FAP Award for Searching For Wonder. She has produced and directed several projects for film and television and recently directed her first feature, Clean Break.

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French fries are a special food for Rachel and her grandmother. As they prepare New Year's Eve dinner, they learn to look beyond language and connect through the memories they share.

Janice Lee is a Toronto-born filmmaker. Faraway is based on her own experiences of teaching English to her grandmother by using fast food items.

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A young boy and his grandfather visit an aviation centre and the boy’s dreams lift him towards the sky.

Vincent Toi spent his youth on the African island of Mauritius and came from the southern Chinese diaspora. He is an accomplished art director and is currently completing his studies in Film Production at Concordia University.

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On the cusp of adulthood, 18-year-old Jae Lee helps at his family’s convenience store. He finds himself at a crossroads with his father when he is invited to his crush’s birthday party.

Jennifer Suhr is a graduate from Yale University where she studied American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. She is currently developing two feature-length projects.

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Filmed in Berlin, Sunday Menu offers a poetic look into the world of a German-Vietnamese teenager as she confronts generational and cross-cultural conflicts through the ritualistic power of food.

Liesl Nguyen is based in Berlin, Germany. She is a graduate from Brown University and is a freelance translator, writer, and video editor.

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Cristina Marx, University of Film and Television (HFF) “Konrad Wolf”
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Penappa and Arthid are two teenagers in Thailand with an unusual routine: eight times a day, they must abruptly halt business in their market, move their stalls, and give way to the passing train.

Gary Yong is currently completing an MFA in Film and Media Arts at Temple University. His work conveys the fluid state of being outside and between borders, unprotected and unclaimed.

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