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Brandon Wee lives in Toronto.

Naked Ambition: The 14th Shanghai International Film Festival 2011

Brandon Wee
October 2011
Festival Reports
There are certain film festivals whose films and business politics always inspire great discussion. There are others where the warmth of community beats all else. For some hospitality and competency are their h...

Random Talking Points: The 63rd Cannes Film Festival 2010

Brandon Wee
July 2010
Festival Reports
Few would have missed the chorus of lament sung mostly by the American and British press about this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Now a standard response from the corporate and grassroots press who file regular ...
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Fragments of Forgotten Shame: Films about Imperial Japan at Hot Docs 2007

Brandon Wee
August 2007
Festival Reports
19-29 April 2007 At Hot Docs this year, two titles about Japanese involvement in World War II made it as official selections. Nanking (2007), co-directed by Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman, chronicles the...
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The Last Picture Shows: Midnight Madness Films at the 31st Toronto International Film Festival

Brandon Wee
February 2007
Festival Reports
7-16 September 2006 “The Midnight Madness category was originally devised as a spot for films that didn’t really ‘fit in’ with a traditional festival agenda… back in, say, 1988, when genre films didn’t n...
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The Medium Enthralled: Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival 2006

Brandon Wee
July 2006
Festival Reports
April 28–May 7, 2006 This is how it started. It was a most trivial event that was dramatised out of proportion. It happened many years ago, one early spring. You had not been to a festival in a while. Ne...
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Easy on the Relish: Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival 2005

Brandon Wee
July 2005
Festival Reports
April 22–May 1, 2005 The festival’s publicity posters are modest but striking, and volunteer a definition of “documentary”. Like Mark Rothko tableaus, thin blocks of text hang over dominating fields of...
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Nationalism for the Main Course: Bangkok International Film Festival

Brandon Wee
April 2005
Festival Reports
January 13–24, 2005 At the time of this writing, two domestic events of historical significance have recently come to pass in Thailand. The latest, in early February, was the re-election of Thai Prime Mi...
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The Decade of Living Dangerously: A Chronicle from Lav Diaz

Brandon Wee
February 2005
Filipino Cinema
Ten years in the making, Lav Diaz's epic ten-hour Evolution of a Filipino Family has finally left the editing room and is more than worth the wait. In this interview, he discusses the immense undertaking of making the film, as well as Filipino society and cinema past and present.
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An Anthropological Perspective: The 29th Toronto International Film Festival

Brandon Wee
February 2005
Festival Reports
September 9–18, 2004 In the title of Jia Zhangke's latest film, The World (2004), the noun refers figuratively in one instance to its setting in “World Park”, a Beijing tourist trap where replicas of in...
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Dying at a Film Festival: The 6th Udine Far East Film Festival

Brandon Wee
July 2004
Festival Reports
Every year since 1999, a festival in a northern Italian town has played host to a week's worth of the most popular films from East Asia. Although this focus is a recent preoccupation, the festival's shell i...
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Letter From Krungthep: Bangkok International Film Festival 2004

Brandon Wee
April 2004
Festival Reports
I'm thinking of quitting doing film festival reports because I remain sceptical that this format can produce anything novel. I get bored with, tired from and sick of the chains of conventions that will sure...
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Sixteen Flashbacks – The 16th Singapore International Film Festival

Brandon Wee
July 2003
Festival Reports
(17 April - 3 May 2003) 16. The Ending Is The Beginning Is The End In Strain Andromeda The (1992), video artist Anne McGuire re-edits Robert Wise's The Andromeda Strain (1971) by reversing his sequences s...
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One League of Social Consciousness: Dharmasena Pathiraja Speaks

Brandon Wee
July 2003
Feature Articles
Sri Lankan filmmaker, Dharmasena Pathiraja, whose works are humanist social commentaries, enjoyed a retrospective at this year's Singapore International Film Festival.
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Too Beautiful To Live; Too Young To Die: A Report on the 6th Bangkok International Film Festival

Brandon Wee
March 2003
Festival Reports
(1) Bangkok International Film Festival 2003 10-21 January 2003 It would have been the event's sixth incarnation, but the blizzard of publicity over the Thai capital bore only "Bangkok International...
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The 14th Singapore International Film Festival – A Postscript

Brandon Wee
November 2001
Festival Reports
An insightful discussion of the current state of film culture and filmmaking in Singapore.

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