GOLDEN GATE GIRLS, directed by S. Louisa Wei, is the story of filmmaker Esther Eng, the first woman to direct Chinese-language film in the US, and the most prominent women director in Hong Kong in the 1930s. A San Francisco native and open lesbian, her contribution to film history is sadly overlooked and most of […]
GOLDEN GATE GIRLS, directed by S. Louisa Wei, is the story of filmmaker Esther Eng, the first woman to direct Chinese-language film in the US, and the most prominent women director in Hong Kong in the 1930s. A San Francisco native and open lesbian, her contribution to film history is sadly overlooked and most of […]
Tickets Here Guest Speaker Following the film we will have a Q&A session with our special guest Jacob Beaton Jacob Beaton is an award-winning Indigenous entrepreneur and leader with previous business successes under his belt. Jacob holds the traditional name Dzap’l Gye’a̱win Skiik, meaning a busy eagle, or an eagle who gets things done. Film […]
Celebrate multilingualism this Halloween season at UBC’s inaugural Multilingual Horror Film Festival! Join us at the Norm Theatre (6138 Student Union Blvd) for one of this year’s featured screenings, Let the Right One In (2008). In this film, a lonely boy forms a strange and haunting bond with a mysterious girl who turns out to […]
Celebrate multilingualism this Halloween season at UBC’s inaugural Multilingual Horror Film Festival! Join us at the Norm Theatre (6138 Student Union Blvd) for one of this year’s featured screenings, Deep Red (1975). In this film, a pianist becomes entangled in a deadly mystery after witnessing a brutal murder, leading him on a nightmarish descent into […]
Celebrate multilingualism this Halloween season at UBC’s inaugural Multilingual Horror Film Festival! Join us at the Norm Theatre (6138 Student Union Blvd) for one of this year’s featured screenings, Gwledd (2021). In this film, a pregnant woman seeking refuge in a remote Welsh farmhouse uncovers disturbing secrets, as the boundaries between reality and nightmare begin […]
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