Projects
Status Quo?Refuge
In
the Shadow of Gold MountainDiasopra
Eve Love
is a Four-Letter WordSyndicated
LifeThe Cardboard Spaceship
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Status
Quo? The Unfinished Business of Feminism in Canada
Writer/Director: Karen Cho
Producer: National
Film Board of Canada
Summary:
Status Quo? uncovers provocative - at times shocking
- revelations about the evolution of women's equality in Canada. Interweaving
a wealth of dynamic archival material with startling contemporary stories,
the film situates the vibrant Canadian women's movement in its history-making
context. In 1967 the landmark Royal Commission on the Status of Women
made recommendations to address the inequalities faced by women. The film
celebrates the vibrant history of how feminism shaped the society we live
in, but also questions just how far we’ve come. Status Quo? is crucial
viewing for every Canadian, especially those unfamiliar with the vital
achievements of the feminist movement.
WINNER: WORLD DOCUMENTARY AWARD, WHISTLER FILM FESTIVAL |
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Refuge
70min |documentary| HD
Co-Writer/Director: Karen Cho
Producer: InformAction
Films
Broadcasters: Radio
Canada, CBC
Summary:
Five asylum seekers set out on the lengthy journey to be accepted as refugees
in Canada. Plunging into the experiences, hopes and struggles of asylum
seekers looking for protection, Seeking Refuge
follows newly-arrived claimants awaiting their hearings and captures the
lives of those who have been denied asylum and are facing deportation.
From border crossings to refugee shelters, a moving look at the lives
of people who navigate Canada’s complex refugee determination system
after escaping war, persecution, rape and political unrest.
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The Shadow of Gold Mountain 43min | documentary | DVC
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Year of Production: 2004
Writer/Director: Karen Cho
Producer: National Film Board of Canada
Broadcaster: CBC NewsWorld (Roughcuts & The Lens)
Summary:
In the Shadow of Gold Mountain, takes filmmaker
Karen Cho from Montreal to Vancouver to uncover stories from the last
living survivors of the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act. This dark
chapter in our history, from 1885 until 1947, plunged the Chinese community
in Canada into decades of debt and family separation.
At the centre of the film are personal accounts of extraordinary Chinese
Canadians who survived an era that threatened to eradicate their entire
community. Through a rich melding of history, poetry and raw emotion,
this documentary sheds light on an era that shaped the identity of generations,
with deeply moving testimonials, it reveals the profound ways this history
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Diaspora
(in development)
Supported By : Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
(CALQ)
Writer/Director/Producer: Karen Cho
Summary:
Diaspora is the story of the transnational soul.
This experimental documentary will journey along the creation of identity
and collective memory in the cultural products of diasporic communities.
Focusing on female Canadian artists, writers, musicians, and dancers from
diasporic backgrounds, the film will feature people whose identities have
been formed in Canada, yet whose roots lie elsewhere. |
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Eve
12min | Science-Fiction | 16mm
Year of Production: 2001
Writer/Director/Producer: Karen Cho
Summary:
A dark film about a future where advances in genetics have reverted gender
roles back to archaic times. Females are used as incubators for a superior
human breed- their sole function to manufacture life. After escaping her
incubation tank, EVE 187 finds herself caught in the underworld maze of
the GenLab. In this world gender dictates. Eve knows she must hide the
fact that she is female or face execution. Here the female race is an
endangered species. But is she the only one? |
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Love
is a Four-Letter Word 12min | Docu-Fiction | 16mm
Year of Production: 2000
Writer/Director/Producer: Karen Cho
Summary:
Complete opposites, Frankie and Derek are forced to redefine their relationship
and opinions of love. Is this it or is there a better romance waiting
around the corner? Half fiction, half documentary, Love is a Four-Letter
Word seeks to answer (or confuse) that age-old question: "What is
love?" |
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Syndicated
Life 6min | Fiction | 16mm
Year of Production: 1999
Writer/Director/Producer: Karen Cho
Summary:
Trying to console herself after a break-up, Jackie turns to her television
for salvation. Life and fiction soon intertwine as Jackie begins to see
her life through the eyes of the various television shows she watches.
Will Jackie's TV addiction help her overcome her personal problems?
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The
Cardboard Spaceship 5min | Fiction | 16mm
Year of Production: 1998
Writer/Director/Producer: Karen Cho
Summary:
Disillusioned by her conforming adult existence, Sarah discovers her inner
child when she meets a group of children building a cardboard spaceship. |
