CBC’s Rough Cuts: Scenes from a Corner Store
Posted At: Tue 2 May 2006	Posted By: Derek Nobuyuki信幸 Wallace
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Scenes from a Corner Store is a great documentary about a Korean Canadian family and the generational gap between the first and second generation canadians. I know, I know… this issue is a REALLY old issue that has been addressed numerous times already… however, I think that people could still benefit from seeing this documentary.

Please note this video is very large and takes a little while to load after you have clicked it.

Film Brief:

Scenes from a Corner Store
Broadcast Date: Jan 29, 1996

An intimate portrait of a Korean-Canadian family dealing with a generation and cultural gap. Filmmaker Sun-Kyung Yi shows one family’s painful discovery that love does not translate easily from one culture to another. Scenes from a Corner Store highlights the lives of three sisters trying to cope with divided loyalties, the pressures of old values and the temptations of the new world.

Scenes from a Corner Store was co-produced by Aysha and Sleeping Giant Productions in association with CBC Newsworld

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Scenes from a Corner Store is the winner of the National Film Board’s Kathleen Shannon Award and is definitely a notable contribution to the Asian Canadian film / arts & culture community.

For more information on the Korean-Canadian filmmaker, Sun-Kyung Yi, you can read an article with her here.
I’m not sure what the exact copyright liscense on this documentary is; however, in promotion and “fair use”/”fair deal” policy concerning intellectual property right law I think it’s okay to show you this documentary. If the author wishes me to remove it, I’d be more than happy to. Also, if there are any links to where someone can purchase this film, please let me know and I will post it up (as I could not find it listed with the National Film Board of Canada).

What are you anyways?
Posted At: Fri 14 Apr 2006	Posted By: Derek Nobuyuki信幸 Wallace
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 What Are You Anyways [10:44m]: Play Now

Here’s a very interesting animation from Jeff Stearns, who i’m told is my 2nd or 3rd cousin or something… but i cannot verify that unless someone can tell his mother’s maiden name! (if anyone knows, please leave a comment!)

Update: I finally talked to my mother and my Aunt to determine that the Chiba family is a different family, but one of the relatively few Japanese families in Kelowna back in the day.  So apparently a bunch of people in our family (the Ibaraki and Fujisawa family) know people in the Chiba family. 

I guess for our families from who grew up in Kelowna back in the day.. well for all maybe twenty nikkei families (*hums Cheers theme song* Where every body know your name) elements of Jeff’s story ring very true for all of us. Nearly that entire generation of japanese canadians in kelowna (our parent’s generation) married hakujin (caucasian). And we always grew up not quite sure of who we are… perhaps not even culturally relatable to our parents… at any rate, please enjoy, ponder, share, and discuss!

To support Jeff and his work perhaps visit his website at Meditating Bunny Studio or purchase his animation from the National Film Board of Canada, Komatsu Japanese Market (Kelowna), or Nikkei Place (Burnaby/Vancouver), or check him out on Zed.CBC!

CBC Radio’s Sounds Like Canada Interview RicePaper Magazine
Posted At: Fri 11 Nov 2005	Posted By: Derek Nobuyuki信幸 Wallace
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 CBC Radio Interviews RicePaper Magazine [25:04m]: Play Now

Sounds Like Canada on CBC’s Radio One interviews the Publisher and Editor-In-Chief of RicePaper Magazine, The Premiere Asian Canadian Arts and Culture Magazine.

PodCast DirectLink: http://interculturalism.com/media/PodCasts/Press.DerekWallace.com_presents_CBCSoundsLikeCanada_Interviews_RicePaperMagazine_20051110.mp3

The CBC’s Real Audio Archive Entry: http://www.cbc.ca/soundslikecanada/media/20051110rice_paper.ram

Ricepaper Magazine is celebrating 10 years in the business. From Evelyn Lau to to Deepa Mehta to Sekoya, the magazine showcases Asian-Canadian talent in a way that has never been done before. Shelagh Rogers talks to Jim Wong Chu, the founder of Ricepaper, and Jessica Gin-Jade, the editor in chief.

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For more information:
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on RicePaper Magazine, please see http://www.ricepaperonline.com
on Sekoya, please see http://www.sekoya.ca/

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Thanks to the editor in chief who is a close personal friend of not only myself, but of my entire family, we have been so fortunate to have the opportunity to subscribe to RicePaper Magazine; RicePaper Magazine never disappoints. Please support RicePaper Magazine and the CBC; you will not regret it.

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Campus Life Confused After US Occupation
Posted At: Thu 4 Aug 2005	Posted By: Derek Nobuyuki信幸 Wallace
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http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/pdfs/ubyssey/UBYSSEY_1954_10_21.pdf
pulled from the archives of UBC’s publication The Ubyssey: October 21st, 1954

“Japanese university students are not nearly as imaginative nor so radical as their Canadian counterparts,” stated George Fujisawa, first year law student, when speaking to the Chinese Varsity Club Tuesday.

Fujiwara, recently back from a trip to Japan, told the meeting, “The students have little religious or political beliefs as a basis for their opinions. Consequently they have no opinions.

“During the American occupation they were taught to reject all previous teachings and learn the “American Way” of thinking. When Japan was given her independence, they were in turn told to reject all American doctrines and return to their old culture. As a result, the average young Japanese feels he has been fooled twice and is naturally bewildered. He does not want to be “fooled” again so he remains completely indifferent to all teaching.”

Fujisawa went ont to say that the attitude of Japanese professors is similarly apathetic–they often arrive an hour late for the two-hour lectures. This is done purposely so as to display their “apathy towards authority” and “intellectual freedom.”

The students have no use for studying and seldom use their library. They cut most classes and rely on reading their textbooks periodically to get them through the year.

“Regarding the physical aspects of the campus,” he said, “the grounds and buildings are generally dirty and the living conditions at most of the private rooming houses are deplorable.” (There are no dorms).

On bright feature of the campus is the health service which is run very efficiently by the students. In March (beginning of the college year), they put 2000 students through a thorough medical examination, in only four days.

Could this be a major contributing factor to why so much of japanese society is utterly indifferent to a lot of things…

George has lead an impressive life full of obstacles and adversity to overcome…
maybe these experience were the beginning of something bigger… way back in 1954…

Nobody said it was easy…
Posted At: Sat 18 Oct 2003	Posted By: Derek Nobuyuki信幸 Wallace
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These are difficult times in many respects…

I saw this at WRC2003: Riaz’s a snapshot of prague. I really reccomend you watch it. Change your life. Experience culture.

“Nobody said it was easy… no one ever said it would be so hard…”

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