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BY BOY RYAN ZABAL
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KALIBO, Aklan – An Aklanon-made film won awards in an international film festival in Toronto, Canada.
Film producer and director Russ Patrick Alcedo’s “A Piece of Paradise” won the National Bank Best First Feature Film and Centennial College Best Canadian Film awards in the 21st Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival on Nov. 12.
Alcedo’s film is about the journey of three Filipino workers – their everyday plight and persistence – in Canada.
“[The film is] a tribute to countless foreign domestic workers. [It is] for anyone who understands that home can be in two places and one’s yearning for it can cause homesickness that may never be fully remedied,” Alcedo said.
The film festival, which features contemporary Asian motion pictures, is the largest of its kind in Canada. It started on Nov. 9 and will end on Nov. 18.
Content creators and media artists from Southeast, East, and South Asia participated in the nonprofit community-based film festival, which advocates for Asian representation in the Canadian media scene for two decades already.
Alcedo is an associate professor at the Department of Dance at York in Canada.
He is a recipient of the Government of Ontario’s Early Researcher Award.
Alcedo, who is also a dance ethnographer, currently works on a short documentary about underprivileged ballet dancers living in poor urban districts in Manila. (Aklan Forum Journal/PN)
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