<h1>Daniel Eng</h1>

Daniel Eng

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Citizen Minutes – Issues that hit home

Citizen Minutes – Issues that hit home

Citizen Minutes often feels both relatable and universal. That's its strength. The doc pulls shorts from many unique and diverse communities to look at the issues and triumphs they've made in their groups and as individuals. The films are all short documentaries that...

She Came to Me: A Glass Onion of Melodrama

She Came to Me: A Glass Onion of Melodrama

Writer-director Rebecca Miller's She Came to Me finds melodrama at every angle, using its talented cast to paint thin portraits of people whose lives should be very simple and nice, but they simply aren't. Steven (Peter Dinklage) is considered a genius-level,...

TIFF ’23: Green Border

TIFF ’23: Green Border

In this harrowing contemporary humanist drama, auteur Agnieszka Holland becomes the second Polish film of TIFF to look at the banality of evil but shows us how it's happening in the present. Shot in a very draining black and white verite documentary style, Green...

TIFF 23′: Sing Sing

TIFF 23′: Sing Sing

A cleanly presented film, whose story will likely stir up both empathetic and artistic energies, Sing Sing sees the power of theatre come to life in what many consider the darkest havens of America. Sing Sing Correctional Facility boasts an arts rehabilitation program...

TIFF ’23: Expats

TIFF ’23: Expats

Confidently directed by Lulu Wang, her follow-up to The Farewell received much critical acclaim out of Sundance and finally should establish her as “going Hollywood”. Expats is a six-part miniseries based on the book Expatriates by Janine K Lee. TIFF invited Lulu to...

TIFF ’23: Hit Man

TIFF ’23: Hit Man

Richard Linklater never fails and, more amazingly, continues to surprise. Even as he traverses genres, he always nails the core relationships. At the same time, he understands that romantic love brings us together and makes us make the most absurd choices possible. A...