Image from The Lesson

Binding Borders
Fiction, Canada, 2007, 8 min
Binding Borders is about four different characters. Each of them reminisces about their lives before immigrating to Canada. Their pasts are sewn into one present story through coincidence. Binding Borders represents the various cultures and ethnic backgrounds of Toronto that unify us.
Director: Tiffany Hsiung
Born in Canada in the heart of Toronto, Ontario, Tiffany is a recent graduate of Ryerson University studying in the film production program. Her goal in the field of film is to expose, educate and revolutionize a better society for the next generation.

A Good Life
Documentary, Canada, 2008, 8 min 44 sec
In February 1940, Soviet soldiers came to Zofia’s house in Poland and
forced her and her family to leave.
Director: Emily Engkent
Emily Engkent graduated from Fanshawe College and the University of Western Ontario in 2007 with a degree and diploma in Media.

Ke Nâ’ De En
Documentary, Canada, 2008, 7 min 54 sec
A documentary that explores the notion of identity.
Director: Marc Arellano
Marc Arellano teaches Communications at Okanogan College. He is a poet and a filmmaker.

The Lesson
Documentary, Canada, 2007, 8 min 50 sec
A film about a father who helped his Punjabi community in Edmonton by teaching new immigrants how to drive.
Director: Punam Kumar Gill
The Lesson is Punam Kumar Gill’s first film.

Nonna
Documentary, Canada, 2007, 9 min
Have you ever wondered how one choice can influence your entire life? This is the story of one girl’s immigration to Canada from a mountain village in Italy after WWII.
Director: Alberto White
Alberto White is a recent graduate of the University of New Brunswick. He is a filmmaker, designer and producer currently living in Ontario.

A Reggae Girl
Documentary, Canada, 2008, 9 min
One man’s immigration from Jamaica brings a culture that influences the development of his daughter’s mixed identity in Canada.
Director: Rafael Alberto Argüello Ruiz
A Reggae Girl is Rafael Alberto Argüello Ruiz’ second independent work as a filmmaker.

Why did I leave?
Documentary, Canada, 2008, 5 min 30 sec
A documentary about the filmmaker’s first trip back to her home country six years after immigrating to Canada, she tries to explain her old world to her nine year old daughter and, why not, to herself.
Director: Pilar Onatra
Pilar Onatra is a filmmaker and writer based in Vancouver.

Wires and Words
Documentary, Canada, 2008, 5 min 46 sec
Weaving a personal voyage through South India with her experiences in Canada, the filmmaker explores how second-generation Tamil Brahmins connect to their culture and heritage through a new medium — the internet.
Director: Radha Rajagopalan
Radha Rajagopalan is a Research Analyst for Toronto’s Environment Office.