Echo Chamber - LFF 23 - Extended (Boat People)
The 67th BFI London Film Festival (4th to 15th October 2023) might officially be over now, don't worry cause @EchoChamberFP has you covered!!!
Today, on 'Day 13', we take a look at a highly inventive and personal Short, and then speak to the woman who not only birthed the project but whose story this is firmly entrenched in!
'Boat People' is written & directed by Thao Lam & Kjell Boersma. It's an adaptation of Thao's book 'The Paper Boat: A Refugee Story'. As a child in Vietnam, Thao's mother often rescued ants from bowls of sugar water. Years later they would return the favour. Boat People is an animated documentary that uses a striking metaphor to trace one family's flight across the turbulent waters of history.
Watch the conversation: HERE!
Today we have:
Boat People - Poster
Boat People
Watch Review: Here.
Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film: 27th April 2023
BFI London Film Festival
Film Strand: Shorts (Right Here, Right Now)
Monday, 9th 2023 at 16:15pm
ICA
Director: Thao Lam, Kjell Boersma
Animators: Kjell Boersma, Miranda Quesnel, Simon Cottee, Adam Brown, Lillian Chan, Samantha Lucy Haslam
Credits: National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Genre: Animation, Family, Short
Running Time: 10 min
Cert: PG
Trailer: Here.
Website: Here.
Watch the conversation: HERE!
Thao Lam
Thao Lam
Author, Illustrator, Writer, Director
Thao Lam is a critically acclaimed Vietnamese-Canadian children’s book author and illustrator. Her books include THAO, Wallpaper, My Cat Looks Like My Dad, Skunk on a String, and the multi-award-winning Paper Boat. Thao arrived in Canada with her parents at the age of three as a refugee from Vietnam. Learning English was difficult, and it was picture books that helped her understand this new world and ignited her passion for visual storytelling. She has an insatiable love for coloured and textured papers, which she uses to create her exuberant collages.
Follow Thao via:
IMDb: Here.
Website: Here.
Instagram: @thaohlam
Pinterest: Here.
Find Thao's books on Goodread: Here.
Buy 'The Paper Boat: A Refugee Story' via Amazon: Here.
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67th BFI London Film Festival
The BFI London Film Festival is in its '67th' year, and runs from 4 to 15 October 2023 at venues in London, around the UK and on BFI Player.
brimming with the world’s best new films, series and immersive storytelling
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Information
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Gala Programme: Here.
Special Presentations Programme: Here.
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Short Film Programme: Here.
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