Published in taclanese

·Jun 1

Unrealism — a player’s guide

by Solara Thanh-Bình Đặng This zine is published as part of the Youth Critics Initiative III, a collaborative mentorship incubator between the 25th Reel Asian Film Festival and TACLA. An accessible, full-text transcript of the zine can be found HERE

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Unrealism — a player’s guide

by Solara Thanh-Bình Đặng

This zine is published as part of the Youth Critics Initiative III, a collaborative mentorship incubator between the 25th Reel Asian Film Festival and TACLA.

An accessible, full-text transcript of the zine can be found HERE

Published in taclanese

·May 31

I Am Home, I Am Nowhere:

Alienism in Ostin Fam’s Bình by Ella Nguyen This essay is published as part of the Youth Critics Initiative III, a collaborative mentorship incubator between the 25th Reel Asian Film Festival and TACLA. All my life, it feels like I am constantly on the verge of leaving, abandoning a…

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12 min read

Published in taclanese

·May 30

Desh Pardesh at Reel Asian

by Meera Sethi, November 2021 “Let us know that we are different, let us recognize that we are different, let us not be lumped together or co-opted. I will not be a party to any co-opting of my race into the formation of groups that will only pay lip service…

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10 min read

Published in taclanese

·May 28

Reel Asian 2021 Features Ranked

And Exploring the Conundrums of Film Ranking and Rating by Mathew Gene This essay is published as part of the Youth Critics Initiative III, a collaborative mentorship incubator between the 25th Reel Asian Film Festival and TACLA. If you don’t examine your engagement with cinema, what use does it have besides being a dopamine rush? This isn’t to say…

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21 min read

Published in taclanese

·May 27

BRIGHT SCREENS IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD:

Confronting a Virtual Reel Asian by Hannah Polinski This essay is published as part of the Youth Critics Initiative III, a collaborative mentorship incubator between the 25th Reel Asian Film Festival and TACLA. As Bong Joon-Ho opened the 74th Festival de Cannes in the summer of 2021, the Festival’s first return since the start of…

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7 min read

Published in taclanese

·May 26

Mutual Drift

Reflections on Emilie Serri’s DAMASCUS DREAMS by Tina Hafizy This essay is published as part of the Youth Critics Initiative III, a collaborative mentorship incubator between the 25th Reel Asian Film Festival and TACLA. Accessibility note: This video is accompanied by captions. Tina is a queer Afghan-Iranian writer based in Toronto. Her current interests include researching stories of resistance, learning the craft of tailoring, and yearning. IG: @re.tina__

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A black and white video still of waves and crests, with illustrated streaks of water droplets superimposed over it. — Still taken from Video Essay by Tina Hafizy

Mutual Drift

Reflections on Emilie Serri’s DAMASCUS DREAMS

by Tina Hafizy

This essay is published as part of the Youth Critics Initiative III, a collaborative mentorship incubator between the 25th Reel Asian Film Festival and TACLA.

Accessibility note: This video is accompanied by captions.

Tina is a queer Afghan-Iranian writer based in Toronto. Her current interests include researching stories of resistance, learning the craft of tailoring, and yearning.
IG: @re.tina__

Published in taclanese

·May 24

LOLO — Film Review

by Elida Dizon This essay is published as part of the Youth Critics Initiative III, a collaborative mentorship incubator between the 25th Reel Asian Film Festival and TACLA. I was a teenager in the early 2010s and as any young Filipino-Canadian influenced by popular Asian Youtubers, artists and dancers of…

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8 min read

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·May 22

Excuse Me, Time, Time, Time

A Capture of RAFF25 in Text and Sound — by Sahar Golshan This essay is published as part of the Youth Critics Initiative III, a collaborative mentorship incubator between the 25th Reel Asian Film Festival and TACLA. Author’s notes: Each fragment in the memoir In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado begins with a title that makes a…

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12 min read

Published in taclanese

·May 20

MY MISSING VALENTINE: Romance Sacrificed on the Altar of Patriarchy

by Nick Hsu This essay is published as part of the Youth Critics Initiative III, a collaborative mentorship incubator between the 25th Reel Asian Film Festival and TACLA. Content Warning: Abuse, Violence against Women’s Bodies, Sexual Assault Last summer, I went on a two-day camp trip from Taipei to Yilan…

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MY MISSING VALENTINE: Romance Sacrificed on the Altar of Patriarchy

Published in taclanese

·May 16

Inner Frequencies: On the Pathways Home from LA to Beijing

Hosted and produced by Mathew Gene and Hannah Polinski. This conversation is published as part of the Youth Critics Initiative III, a collaborative mentorship incubator between the 25th Reel Asian Film Festival and TACLA. A full transcript of the conversation can be found here. Is home a place? A…

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Inner Frequencies: On the Pathways Home from LA to Beijing