It’s hard to believe Said The Whale is only (barely) five years into its existence… It feels like I just heard the uber-catchy “Camilo (The Magician)” on the radio for the first time. It’s now a modern Canadian rock/alternative radio staple. Said The Whale hearts Vancouver, and vice versa. Considering the extent to which Vancouver […]
It is not often that the elderly are featured as protagonists, yet, The Secret Friend, which is based off a short story by Brazilian writer João Silvério Trevisan, breaks conventional molds by telling a story of an independent, recently widowed woman. The short film looks at the life of Anna Marshall (Viola Harris), who lives […]
In Carmen Aguirre’s striking memoir the story begins when she is just six years old. Her family fled from their native Chile to live in Vancouver as refugees; narrowly avoiding the violence of General Augusto Pinochet’s military coup. Only five years later her revolutionary mother would return to South America, taking her two daughters along […]
It’s hard to believe Said The Whale is only (barely) five years into its existence… It feels like I just heard the uber-catchy “Camilo (The Magician)” on the radio for the first time. It’s now a modern Canadian rock/alternative radio staple. Said The Whale hearts Vancouver, and vice versa. Considering the extent to which Vancouver […] 
It is not often that the elderly are featured as protagonists, yet, The Secret Friend, which is based off a short story by Brazilian writer João Silvério Trevisan, breaks conventional molds by telling a story of an independent, recently widowed woman. The short film looks at the life of Anna Marshall (Viola Harris), who lives […] 