Canada’s Rising Screen Stars: Six top film talents open up during lockdown
Actors and filmmakers bring cameras into their bubbles to show us where the inspiration happens By Radheyan Simonpillai
Apr 15, 2021
In an industry that has been locked down for the better part of the last year, you can count on Canada to produce screen stars who keep rising. The pandemic closed movie theatres, delayed releases and halted productions. It also widened the gap between the haves and the have-nots in the film and television industry. Indie productions were hit particularly hard by the high expense of shooting with strict COVID-19 protocols.
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Vancouver actor Valerie Tian is ready to kick ass
Canada s Rising Screen Stars: The understated star of Curse Of Willow Song wants to do over-the-top comedy By Craig Takeuchi
Apr 15, 2021
Staying silent while conveying there’s something simmering beneath the surface isn’t something that all actors can do. Some have failed spectacularly, while others (think Isabelle Huppert) have elevated the technique. Vancouver actor Valerie Tian pulls it off, making quite the understated impression in Karen Lam’s atmospheric horror The Curse Of Willow Song.
As the titular character, an ex-convict attempting to rebuild her life in a Vancouver neighbourhood known as Canada’s poorest postal code, Willow is someone who those around her – her probation officer, her boss, her unlikely allies – talk at, not with. Her eyes, however, say what she cannot.