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Filmmaking with Alice Il Shin

Landscapes of Home
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Landscapes of Home

Producer, Co-Writer and Archive Researcher

Format/Genre/Production Country: 

Documentary, History, Canada

Language: English

Logline: Landscapes of Home is a story about two doctors living in the Japanese Canadian internment camps who lost their homes and identities. 

Best Director & Best Editing for Canadian Feature Film​

Vancouver Asian Film Festival 2024

CBC Arts: History in Paper

2019  Producer

Genre/Runtime/Production Country:      Documentary, 6 min 30 sec, Canada

Language: English

Logline: Emma Nishimura embeds history in paper to uncover her family’s lives in B.C. internment camps.

CBC Arts Youtube Channel

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Signal Fire

2019  Co-Producer

Genre/Runtime/Production Country:                            

Drama, 8 min 45 sec, Canada

Synopsis: A young man accompanies his stoic Chinese grandfather-in-law to visit a loved one’s grave. When they begin to pay their respects, the young man soon realizes how little he knows about traditional Chinese practices and ends up closing the distance between his grandfather-in-law and himself. This film looks at the gaps within intergenerational knowledge and wonders how one might find a connection.

Haru's New Year

2018 Co-Producer & Production Manager

Genre/Runtime/Production Country:               

Drama, 18 min 50 sec, Canada

Synopsis: Haru's New Year is a short film about isolation and solitude in a new land. Having recently arrived in Canada on New Year's Eve, Haru finds difficulty in relating to the other girls at school on account of language barriers while searching for a new friend.

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Freelance Work

Dark Side of the Ring

2021 Vice, Japanese Transcriptor & Translator

A.rtificial I.mmortality

2021 Crave, Japanese Transcriptor & Translator

Portrait in Faith

2020 - Present, Youtube Channel Japanese Translator & Caption Creator

Age of Samurai 

2020 Netflix, Foreign Cast Liaison & Translator

Volunteer & Community Work

MARU Immigration Stories

2021-Present  NJCC & JCCC, Presenter and Translator

Toronto Kenjinkai Rengokai Member

2023-Present

NJCC : New Japanese Canadian Committee member

2021-2024

Toronto Japanese Film Festival

2018-2020  JCCC, Jury Coordinator

*JCCC: Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada

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