Desi 2 returns to Toronto

I Want To Be A Desi 2 returns to Toronto on Friday, April 13 at 4:30 pm as part of ReelWorld Film Festival. Desi 2 will preceed the feature, Arab Rap, and take place at the Famous Players Canada Square Cinemas 6 at 2190 Yonge Street (at Eglinton).

The lucky April 13 screening caps an award-winning three-year run which took the six-minute short from San Diego to Peterborough across North America.  Click for tickets.

Desi2 @ ReFrame Peterborough

Director Allan Tong and co-producer Dinesh Sachdev attended the screening of I Want To Be A Desi 2 at the ReFrame Peterborough International Film Festival on January 30. The film played to its largest audience-to-date, where over 200 Peterboroughians laughing and applauding at the beautiful Showplace Performance Centre. Desi 2 played alongside the films Terra Sacer (Sacrificed Land) and Six Miles Deep, directed by Alberto Guevara & Elysée Nouvet, and Sara Roque respectively.
Immediately after the late-afternoon screening Allan joined those filmmakers plus documentarian Amy Miller (right in photo above) and ReFrame programmer Wanda Nanibush (left) for a discussion with the audience about truth in documentary film.

In the audience was local filmmaker (who is screening a film at the festival) and ReFrame projectionist, Lester Alfonso (left in photo below).
Allan and Dinesh (right in photo above) thank Wanda for inviting them to her impressive film festival, and Allan thanks Greek translator Irini for her assistance, linguistically and photographically.

I Want To Be A Desi 2 screens at ReFrame in Peterborough

I Want To Be A Desi 2 will screen at the ReFrame Peterborough International Film Festival on Saturday, January 30, at 4:00 at the Showplace (with Terra Sacer and Six Miles Deep). Director Allan Tong and co-producer Dinesh Sachdev will present the film. Allan will also speak at the Filmmakers Panel immediately following the screening, also at the Showplace.

Director Allan Tong interview on CFFF-FM

Director Allan Tong will be talking about "DESI 2" with CFFF radio's Barry Boyce on his Social Justice Power Hour program on Monday, January 18, from 3:30 to 4:00 pm. CFFF is Trent University's radio station, and Allan is promoting the January 30 screening of "DESI 2" at the ReFrame International Film Festival in Peterborough.

Listen online at http://www.trentu.ca/org/trentradio/