Upcoming Screenings in 2026
Sun, Oct 4 | 14:15–17:15 PDT
Haru’s New Year — BC Culture Days, Delta, BC, CANADA
Sun, Oct 25 | 11:00–12:30 JST
Pearl — Japan World Film Festival, Nakagawa, Tochigi, JAPAN
Director’s Q&A following the screening
Tue, Oct 27 | 16:20–17:50 JST
Landscapes of Home — Seijo University Library, Tokyo, JAPAN
Talk with the director & producer (in Japanese)
Wed, Oct 28 | 17:20–19:00 JST
Landscapes of Home — Sophia University Library, Tokyo, JAPAN
Talk with the director & producer (in English)
Sun, Nov 8 | 11:30 EST
Pearl — Ottawa Canadian Film Festival, Ottawa, ON, CANADA
Nov 5–15 | Date & Time TBD (PST)
Pearl — Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Vancouver, CANADA
INTRO
ALICE IL SHIN 신일 is a Korean filmmaker who received her formal film training at Nihon University, Japan. Since then, she has been working as a director, producer, and editor on film projects in Japan, Korea, and Canada.
Alice’s work takes an interest in Asian-Canadian experiences similar to her own. Her debut Canadian short film, Haru’s New Year (2018), was shown at film festivals worldwide with numerous awards, while her elegiac short film Signal Fire (2019) was hosted at the Varley Art Gallery of Markham during its festival run. Her first short documentary, CBC Arts: History in Paper (2020), showcases an artist whose experimental creations demonstrate the human cost of the Japanese internment in Canada, and started an interest in documentary filmmaking that has preoccupied her since.
Continuing to explore the topic of Japanese-Canadian internment, her one-hour length documentary Landscapes of Home (2024) was supported by the National Association of Japanese Canadians and the Canada Council for the Arts with mentorship from the 2020 Hot Docs X Netflix Accelerator Lab and 2022 Breakthrough Development Lab by DOC Institute. Aside from documentary filmmaking, Alice completed her first short animation, Pearl (2025), which adapts a medieval English poem about child bereavement to a Joseon Korean setting.
As a commercial filmmaker, Alice worked as an editor for Banger Films’ 7-parts documentary series on the Youtube Originals series K-Pop Evolution (2021), which gave her hands-on experience with professional and collaborative editing. She also worked as the on-set translator for Apple TV+ series Pachinko (Season 2 – 2024) as an aid for the directors and actors.
Currently, she works with NJcreation on film and television projects in Japan, including the Japanese remake of the Thai drama series Girl From Nowhere 転校生ナノ(2026) (2026), which premiered on FOD and aired on Fuji TV in 2026. She also worked on the Japanese feature film The intertwining 過怠(2026), which will be screened at the Tokyo International Film Festival in October 2026 ahead of its theatrical release in Japan in 2027.
She is also a board member of Arts East-West, a Montréal-based, non-profit, artist-driven organization that has been specializing in thematic festivals since 1995, with no national boundaries across Pan-Asia and its diaspora.
