Memoirs of a Superfan Vol. 11.5 – A Flower Grows
Thanks for all your contributions to our great, mutual journey, with one common destiny. Perhaps we have all been flowers growing between concrete and stone. But we are also the forest.
Thanks for all your contributions to our great, mutual journey, with one common destiny. Perhaps we have all been flowers growing between concrete and stone. But we are also the forest.
This oasis is overflowing. Cannes has nothing on CAAMmes.
Superfan Ravi Chandra checks in with director Julia Kwan, whose latest film looks at the changing landscape of Vancouver’s Chinatown.
“To know our kinship is to expand our vision and deepen our love, the trait most emphatically shared, most painfully abandoned, and most urgently needed, on this most tender, green branch of the tree of life.”
“What greater gifts exist than food, friends, family and art?”
“I was deeply moved by two films that explored shame in subtle and powerful ways. Monday was shame day at CAAMFest, but I left the Kabuki and New People feeling empowered. We can make a difference. Film matters.”
“Become a fan, or even a superfan. The cinema of the soul is waiting for you.”
“The silver screen could have been a poultice for our wounds last night. Through tears and shouts and body blows, we still find a way to laugh, and ways to love.”
“All of the films in CAAMFest 2015 feature some kind of journey; the subtle light of the filmmaker illuminates a wound, a vulnerability, a need—and thus our humanity.”
“‘Top Spin’ is one of the best docs I’ve seen in a long while, combining edge-of-your-seat sports excitement with the dramas of childhood, parenting and achievement.”
“Mushroom clouds to matsutake mushrooms. When we look each other in the eyes, we must sense all those secret, hidden stories, and bring them to light.”
“I tend to think that the web pulls the wool over our eyes much of the time. We need real threads to tie us, not virtual ones.”