About Me
I'm an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker with a consuming curiosity about the world and a deep desire to explore personal stories. I've worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a reporter, producer and writer and am now working as a freelance writer/editor, multimedia storyteller and director.
Films & Videos
As a reporter with the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.), I used to do short features that were broadcast nation-wide. These projects featured here are ones that have been produced independently.
Web Articles
I have written various pieces for different sites, including numerous food stories as the Asian Cuisine Writer for Suite 101.com and arts articles for Canada's alternative news site, rabble.ca. The stories cover a wide range of topics, from profiles to food reviews to a look at Canada's immigration system.
Print Articles
I have written many travel stories for newspapers and weeklies, covering a wide range of experiences. Included here is a special Mother's Day piece I did for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper.
Here's a selection of stories I have written for weekly and monthly publications, touching upon different issues
Columns
I began writing regular monthly columns for the CBC.ca site back in 2003 and continued through to about 2006. Here is a selection of those commentaries, musings on modern life, which were written under my "Café Chat" column title.
Travels With My Brother
Travels With My Brother is a 16-minute live-action/animated documentary exploring the relationship between Vas, a high-functioning autistic man, and his older sister Christine, who will one day be his guardian. Through a series of conversations circling on love, family, art, desire and destiny.
Artist probes surveillance and limits of privacy
One day, Kate McQuillen was shopping at her local Home Depot, in the market for a six-inch pipe among other materials she needed for her work. As she made inquiries to an employee, the man looked at her and asked: "Lady, are you making...
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Masaharu Morimoto: An Iron Chef with a soft spot for sushi
Masaharu Morimoto loves sushi, not only because the food represents Japanese cuisine at its finest, but because of childhood memories.
Morimoto, the 52-year-old star of the Iron Chef series on the Food Network, has a more profound connection to sushi than you could...
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We are Hockey
When I heard about the NHL players' lockout, I was saddened - much to my surprise. I've spent my life avoiding "Canada's game." I don't play it. I don't watch it. Yet, the game is lodged in my subconscious. The game was a big part of my childhood. When was growing up in Calgary, my mother...
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Citizen Autistic
CITIZEN AUTISTIC is an interactive storyscape using live-action video, audio, music and animation, that puts people in the shoes of autistic adults to experience how they perceive and relate to the world.
LATEST NEWS!!
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SPRING 2019
Two rabble.ca articles! Documentary reviews. First about the world housing crisis and gentrification and 3 Hot Docs film reviews.
WINTER 2018/2019
Two rabble.ca articles! First, a children's book about a Flamingo trying to find friends in Berlin and I reviewed an award-winning documentary What Walaa Wants.
FALL 2018
The latest EMPIRE OF DREAMS feature podcast is about Longing for a Place You've Never Been and I was the OUTREACH MANAGER/COMMUNICATIONS person at the Institute for Canadian Citizenship's 6 DEGREES BERLIN a unique forum produced in Germany for the first time about inclusion/belonging with support from the Canadian Embassy.
SUMMER 2018
My lastest article for Berlin's VISUAL THOUGHTS online magazine is a review of C/O gallery's Talents winner Stephanie Moshammer and I wrote about a travelogue/comic book investigation on Alberta's tar sands featuring award-winning comic artist Joe Sacco.
My EMPIRE OF DREAMS podcast is featured on the Paris-based Serial Culture podcast! (last part, after interview) and I wrote my first piece for Berlin's VISUAL THOUGHTS online magazine about visual artist/filmmaker Lucas Marxt.
FEB/MARCH 2018
My EMPIRE OF DREAMS podcast is now offered on iTunes! and I wrote an article about Edmonton's queer Muslim poet and artist Nasra Adem.
JANUARY 2018
My EMPIRE OF DREAMS podcast asks ex-refugee Mostafa, now fluent in German and a university student, What is home for you now? and I wrote a VICE piece about a photographer's 4-year global journey to create the ATLAS OF BEAUTY of women from everywhere.
NOV/DECEMBER 2017
My latest EMPIRE OF DREAMS podcast travels from Canada to Berlin and asks What is Home? and I write about an animation film that dips ramen noodles in decolonization.
FALL 2017
My latest rabble.ca articles concern a Canadian curator's Slavery Reparation 3-month theatre festival in Berlin and a graphic poster project that re-imagines Canada's history from diverse perspectives.
SUMMER 2017
PODCAST LAUNCH!
We have posted the pilot episode of "Empire of Dreams" - about the journey of humans through time, space, geographies & cultures. LISTEN to our 14-minute feature and follow us on Facebook.
June 2017
My latest rabble.ca articles concerns Germany's Indigenous appropriation
through the literary character of Winnetou and Justin Trudeau's digital media mastermind revealing how Trudeau won the Canadian election through social media.
March 2017
Lots of interest in my Toronto Star piece about the Poutine Man of Germany and his search for the perfect curd and, I was featured in Air Canada's enRoute magazine in March for my Berlin neighbourhood recommendations!
January 2017
Fresh start! Here's to grand adventures and new stories. Speaking of which, some Yahoo articles I did:
Spoke with a Calgary granny, 81, who tattooed 'Don't euthanize me' on her arm.
On the same subject, Inuit tattoos are coming back in vogue.
Late last year, I spent a long time on a feature about Canada's Indigenous reconciliation and how Germany memorialized The Holocaust, amazing parallels here.
And, then a warning from the International Criminal Court: it's going to train its judicial eye on environmental crimes.
Fall 2016
It was a busy early fall for Yahoo News stories, first I covered the Trudeau brothers: interviewing Alexandre Trudeau about his new China book while I asked Europeans about their admiration for big brother Prime Minister Justin.
Meanwhile, readers also got to meet five Canadians vying for the chance to go into space and one engineer gets to see his creation used for a NASA mission.
July 2016
Travels with my Brother nabbed 2nd Prize in the prestigious AutisMovie international film festival! Only 2 awards are given, judged by a panel of individuals with autism. What an honour.
June 2016
I've done many more articles for Yahoo News, including one about being gay and indigenous (read about the drag queen recording artist) and Robb Nash, the incredible soul preventing suicide in teens
April 2016
I've written many stories for Yahoo Canada News. You can read about the rise in homeless seniors and the professor who's suing the federal government over its Saudi arms deal.
January 2016
Some of my features for Yahoo News include a report about being Stateless in Canada and a Q&A with the 1st native woman to head a law school