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Have You Eaten?
20205 min 48 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Lina Li
Production: Justine PimlottAnita Lee
Script: Lina Li
Living in downtown Toronto to attend school, Lina Li returns to the comfort of home in Thornhill and her mother's cooking. In this candid short, filmmaker Lina Li and her mother engage in an intimate conversation about immigration to Canada, misunderstandings, barriers to communicating, love and the taste of home.
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Subject categories
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Asian OriginsImmigration Experience and Social Adjustment
- Food and Food Industries > Cooking and Preparation
- Families > Immigrant Experience
Credits
- writer
- Lina Li
- director
- Lina Li
- featuring
- Yan Gao
- producer
- Justine Pimlott
- executive producer
- Anita Lee
- director mentor
- Aeyliya Husain
- editor
- Mary Komech
- director of photography
- Lina Li
- sound recordist
- Lina Li
- production supervisor
- Marcus Matyas
- senior production coordinator
- Katie Murray
- technical coordinator
- Kevin Riley
- assistant editor
- Will Mitchell
- manager, studio operations
- Mark Wilson
- studio administrator
- Andrew Martin-Smith
- studio coordinator
- Carly Kastner
- online editor
- Serge Verreault
- titles
- Cynthia Ouellet
- re-recording mixer
- Luc Léger
- marketing manager
- Johanna Lessard
- publicist
- Jennifer Mair
- legal counsel
- Christian Pitchen