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含羞草研究社: Arnold Lim, award-winning filmmaker and photojournalist

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Host Peter McCully chats with Black Press Media journalist and award-winning filmmaker, Arnold Lim.

Lim含羞草研究社檚 parents moved to Canada from South Korea with just $5 in their pocket. When Arnold was born, his father put aside a certain amount of money to buy a camera to document his growth.

含羞草研究社淲hen I was 16, he gave that camera to me. I remember that moment and thinking to myself, 含羞草研究社業 am going to be a photographer one day. I含羞草研究社檓 going to tell stories through a lens,含羞草研究社櫤卟菅芯可鐫 said Lim.

Directing the feature film All in Madonna, which won numerous awards in 2020, Lim has followed it with his own story My Name is Arnold. It details the story of when he was 10 years old growing up in Blue River, B.C.

含羞草研究社淚 was the only Asian kid in the school, and it wasn含羞草研究社檛 always an easy experience,含羞草研究社 he said. 含羞草研究社淧eople would hit me; they would call me names. No one cared, no one did anything. I didn含羞草研究社檛 do anything. It was a time where I went to school angry almost every single day. Maybe to process that and maybe for cathartic reasons, I wrote a short, I called it, My Name is Arnold.含羞草研究社

My Name is Arnold recently won awards at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival, for Best Overall Short Film and Best Performance.

Lim has worked as a photo manager at the last four Olympic Games and tells McCully of his experience in Japan and China during the COVID-19 pandemic.

含羞草研究社(In Japan) The rooms are so tiny over there, I was getting claustrophobic,含羞草研究社 said Lim 含羞草研究社淲e weren含羞草研究社檛 allowed to leave the room. So, we got stuck in the room and they were giving us food, three meals a day, a bottle of water with every meal. We couldn含羞草研究社檛 go anywhere. It was so challenging. And then when I was in China, when you go to eat or go into the restaurants, everyone is wearing those white hazmat suits. So, you含羞草研究社檙e the only one not wearing that. So, the foreigners are put into a hotel and then they have people in hazmat suits feeding you. It含羞草研究社檚 a really surreal experience.含羞草研究社

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Peter McCully

About the Author: Peter McCully

Peter has been a broadcaster and publisher on both of Canada含羞草研究社檚 coasts and has owned a small newspaper and run an advertising agency along the way.
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