Day 4 | Program 12
Tuesday October 4, 2011
DAY 4 – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6
PROGRAM 12 – ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: DESIREE LIM
5 PM
CINEPLEX ODEON INTERNATIONAL VILLAGE CINEMAS
The Vancouver Asian Film Festival is proud to spotlight one of Vancouver’s biggest talents in the filmmaking community, Desiree Lim. She is a prolific filmmaker with a unique sensibility that goes beyond standard genres structures. Her latest feature, THE HOUSE, is an excellent example where a basic ghost story is layered with multiple dramatic tones. In the preceding short film, BEAUTY HEART STORY, a VAFF commissioned piece, a model, a musician, and a filmmaker aptly describe their special association with Vancouver.
This program is co-presented with out on screen. For 11 days each August, the Vancouver Queer Film Festival brings the very best in queer independent cinema from around the world to Vancouver.
THE HOUSE
World Premiere
Director and Cast in Attendance
TRAILER
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER / WRITER: Desiree Lim
Narrative | HDCAM | Colour | 2011 | 109 min | Canada | English
www.the-housemovie.com
Jean Kaneko (Natalie Skye), swept away by the tsunami of the catastrophic financial meltdown, just quit her coveted job as an investment banker on Wall Street. After a soul-searching journey traveling around the world, she returns home to Vancouver, still floating in limbo. Instead of settling down, she camps out in an empty home owned by a friend’s rich family who never lived there. Jean moves in – vows to finish her travelogue about her journey. She’s finally found the perfect quiet time to focus on her writing at long last – no commitment, no phone calls, no job, no friends – she’s her own boss. Or at least that’s what she thinks. To her surprise, she finds out that if she wanted to stay, she’d have to share the place with some former occupants who’ve turned into bad squatters – all of whom are not even supposed to be there, because they’re actually dead. As Jean reluctantly confronts these souls as tormented as herself, they inevitably end up in an entangled mass of secrets and lies…
IN ATTENDANCE: Desiree Lim
Desiree Lim is a true cultural hybrid. A 2nd generation Chinese born in Malaysia, she grew up there and in Japan before settling in Vancouver. Desiree started her television career as director and associate producer for news and documentaries at TV Asahi in Tokyo. Her debut Japanese TV feature Sugar Sweet and Canadian TV drama Floored By Love opened to sold-out audiences at major LGBT film festivals around the world. Desiree was a director participant of the Women In Director’s Chair Workshop and National Screen Institute’s Features First.
PRECEDED BY
BEAUTY HEART STORY
Part of VAFF’s Love Letters to Vancouver series
Director In Attendance
DIRECTOR / WRITER / PRODUCER / EDITOR: Andrew Chung
Documentary | Digital | Colour | 2011 | 5 min | Canada | English
Previous Screenings/Awards: VAFF Love Letters to Vancouver Presentation 2011; Mighty Asian Moviemaking Marathon 2011 Gala Screening
Beauty Heart Story is a portrait of three artists that explore and reminisce about their time and experiences in Vancouver. Each artist represents one of three significant characteristics of the city, reflecting on and celebrating Vancouver’s Beauty, Heart, and Story.
