<h1>Daniel Eng</h1>

Daniel Eng

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Escalation: A Cop Story that Should’ve Stopped

Escalation: A Cop Story that Should’ve Stopped

Unfortunately, a lot of this film's ambitions were too high. Likely hoping to have an indie-action phenomenon on their hands, Escalation fills the niche of being an 'Asian-American in the cop world', similar to Jackie Chan in Rush Hour. (To be clear though, Jackie...

Past Lives: The feeling of being connected.

Past Lives: The feeling of being connected.

Past Lives is the directorial debut of Korean-Canadian writer Celine Song that follows an autobiographical story of love, fate and how our life choices can take us away from what we perceive as a more dramatic destiny. The film follows Nora Moon and Hae Sung, two...

Jane: Sabotaged by Grief

Jane: Sabotaged by Grief

Jane stars Madeline Petsch (Riverdale) and Chloe Bailey (Swarm) as two friends who attempt to deal with the overwhelming stress of school and their shared grief that threatens to undermine all their present achievements. For Olivia (Petsch), this comes to fruition...

The Artifice Girl – Dark Secrets used for good?

The Artifice Girl – Dark Secrets used for good?

The Artifice Girl is another notable entry into the pantheon of ever-evolving, low budget sci-fi that squares itself at the centre of a discourse around the creation of A.I. as these technologies become a greater part of our lives. In Artifice, Gareth (Franklin Ritch)...

BlackBerry: How About Them Keyboards?

BlackBerry: How About Them Keyboards?

A deeply Canadian tale that comes from one of the most ambitious Canadians to never leave Waterloo, Ontario. Blackberry tells the story of the former corporate giant’s rise and fall as they pioneered the way people interact through their phones and created the sparks...

HotDocs ’23: Food and Country

In the wake of the pandemic, one of America's most influential food writers, Ruth Reichel, starts to interview her many contacts in the food world, taking a look at the volatile nature of farming in America and how COVID only exacerbated the problems. There are many...

HotDocs ’23: Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law?

HotDocs ’23: Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law?

Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law is one of many films that have documented the tyranny of China in Hong Kong. This time, it’s presented through the eyes and story of Nathan Law, a man who was barely the age of 19 when he first joined the student movement against...

HotDocs ’23: Hong Kong Mixtape

HotDocs ’23: Hong Kong Mixtape

At first, she became obsessed with the teen counter culture that was thriving in New York and Los Angeles. However, after returning from the UK in 2014, she started to document the resistance to the Chinese control over Hong Kong. The defiance began with thousands of...