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On December 21st we flew from Seoul, Korea to Panay Island Philippines in time to pay Lola Adela a surprise visit on Christmas Eve. It was a moment to remember.
December 14th, 2011 dawned the day of the 1000th Wednesday protest of the halmeonis. Over 19 years after its inception, hundreds rally in support of the halmeoni and continue to urge the Japanese government for an apology. We are speechless and in awe of the halmeonis and their spirits. A bronze statue of a little [...]
Yup…. WE DID IT !!!! we not only reached out goal but we surpassed it by $6,525…. When Lucy ( GNP community engagement leader) and Chris told me they were setting our TARGET GOAL to $ 50,000 I was not the most positive pickle in the barrel… I mean honestly thats quite a bit of [...]
So how can I begin to describe our experience at the famous HOT DOCS FORUM……Well let me take a few steps back… WE GOT into the FORUM out of 300 international projects submitted Within Every Woman was selected as one of the 27 projects that were invited to pitch their projects!!! I couldn’t believe it… [...]
In a weird way Nairobi has always been a place that fueled my drive to do whatever it takes to make change…. fully understanding that the power of an individual can make a HUGE difference in this world This would be my 3rd visit to Nairobi, Kenya… and [...]
If you asked me 10 years ago whether I’d ever see myself talking in front of 500 TDSB teachers about the work that I am doing and the potential new curriculum to teach their students…. I’d say ” Are you kidding me… why would they ever listen to a punk kid like me?” Thats the [...]
To all you future documentarians out there…. when your producer says…. “YOU DON’T HAVE TO FILM EVERYTHING” Instead of giving them the finger behind their back and whisper under your breath ” You don’t know what documentary really is…” BITE YOUR TOUNGE… Or join me as I watch 250 hours of footage. This is a [...]
Japan was overwhelming to say the least. Sofia Coppola’s film ‘Lost in Translation” played in my head a few times as I walked the street by myself trying to find somewhere to eat on my own.. It gets lonely sometimes when your in a new place, when language is a barrier… and when questions are [...]
It was the day that we were all waiting for… the night before there was a memorial ceremony held on behalf of all the past survivors that attended the tribunal 10 years ago..65 survivors from across Asia flew to Japan to testify. During this memorial they also recognized many supporters, activist that have also passed [...]
I dropped in at ASE a english teaching after school program for Japanese students. I was hoping to get another perspective on the issue of WW2 and reconciliation through the eyes of the younger generation in Japan. Through my conversations with some of the students I got a sense of what they were taught in [...]
I needed to get out of tokyo… for a little breath of fresh air. If you’ve been to Tokyo you would agree the subway system alone can KICK your butt! These are 2 major subway lines the JR railway and the Tokyo metro.. smash that together and you get one heck of a day to [...]
Yup I am the the Noodle Queen, ask anyone that knows me what I would bring on a deserted island and its NOODLES or flour to make noodles…. Damn the Ramen here is out of CONTROL good… you know noodles are their ting here when you can place orders for noodles through a vending machine…. [...]
Randomness is my middle name… which is maybe why I was attending the 65th anniversary for university Japanese soldiers that were forced to fight in WW2. I had lots of questions about everything that went down. From the museum I visited the day before that commemorates the fallen soldiers to people running everything… It just [...]
I met Naoko officially in Toronto for the International Educators Conference. She flew from Japan to talk about her organization that she founded 5 years ago called ‘Bridge for Peace’ http://bridgeforpeace.jp/ Ironically for the past few years Naoko has similarly befriended many people well over 85 years old… While I may call many of these [...]
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women I never experienced such anger and hate like I did that afternoon when I walked with the grandmothers from Korea passed the Right Wing Japanese Nationalist. The energy was so tense as these young men tried to break through the officers get closer to [...]
So despite how UNREALISTIC it was to pack 2 long boards amongs everything else we had to bring with us… I was convinced that this would be a great way to see and explore the small streets of Tokyo….
Its 7:04am I haven’t slept yet… I never sleep before I have to travel, I’m not sure why… I guess cause I always feel like I’ll fall into a deep sleep and not wake up on time! In just a few hours I’ll be tightening that all too familiar seat belt, eating that all too [...]
So it was a 2 week Aeroplan Campaign and for some strange reason I decided that I would be able to edit the Campaign video myself. A campaign video with me predominately in it. I asked several editors whether they would ever consider editing an entire video with their face and voice in it… most [...]
If you missed the presentations this week, here are a few a clips that Gloria Tong cut for the conference… This was the first teaser cut in 2009, you can see the process becomes more personal as time has gone by: If you’ve seen the documentary ‘babies’ you’ll find the title of this funny. atleast [...]
How can I describe being back home…. INSANE Now we did somewhat predict what was coming prior to arriving to Toronto. We knew we would be presenting at Toronto Alpha’s International educators conference on the history of WW2 in Asia.. so thats why Gloria came to Korea to start cracking on some of the footage.. [...]
It’s funny how random our thoughts can be as we sit buckled in for 13 hours, thousands of feet above ground, pretty much trusting our entire lives to Joe Smith flying this mammoth 767 boeing! I wish I could atleast see his face… We have 6 more hours to go, halmoni Gil is fast alseep… [...]
I won’t get into details… lets just say I got really badly food poisoning. After refusing an ambulance the first time, one finally rolled up at Uchong’s house, and I was finally carried out at 3am. I then blacked out and the next thing I knew I was in a hospital with an IV attached [...]
Well there is always a first time for everything… like going to a dog farm, which I naively thought was a place where dogs are bred to be sold as pets…. NOPE! We came up here to visit Yongnyeo halmoni, who used to live at the ‘House of Sharing.’ However, she was unhappy with the situation [...]
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