18 November 2014 - Forty-five (45) unique films from all over Asia were shown at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (Reel Asian) from November 06 to 16.
This was the 18th year of Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. Following the banner year of Philippine films featured at the Toronto International Film Festival last September, Reel Asian chose the inspirational and uplifting “Manny” by Filipino-American director Ryan Moore and co-director Leon Gast about the life of Pambansang Kamao Manny Pacquiao compiled from documentary footages and “Blue Bustamante” by director Miko Livelo about George, an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) in Japan, who found a job portraying Blue Force in the hit sentai series Force Five while his family back home believed that he landed an engineering job in Japan. END