PODCAST: 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’s mother and father moved to Canada from South Korea with simply $5 of their pocket. When Arnold was born, his father put apart a sure sum of money to purchase a digicam to doc his progress.

“Once I was 16, he gave that digicam to me. I keep in mind that second and considering to myself, ‘I’m going to be a photographer at some point. I’m going to inform tales via a lens,’” mentioned Lim.

Directing the function movie All in Madonna, which received quite a few awards in 2020, Lim has adopted it together with his personal story My Identify is Arnold. It particulars the story of when he was 10 years outdated rising up in Blue River, B.C.

“I used to be the one Asian child within the college, and it wasn’t all the time a straightforward expertise,” he mentioned. “Folks would hit me; they’d name me names. Nobody cared, nobody did something. I didn’t do something. It was a time the place I went to high school offended virtually each single day. Possibly to course of that and possibly for cathartic causes, I wrote a brief, I known as it, My Identify is Arnold.”

My Identify is Arnold not too long ago received awards on the Vancouver Asian Movie Competition, for Greatest General Brief Movie and Greatest Efficiency.

Lim has labored as a photograph supervisor on the final 4 Olympic Video games and tells McCully of his expertise in Japan and China through the COVID-19 pandemic.

“(In Japan) The rooms are so tiny over there, I used to be getting claustrophobic,” mentioned Lim “We weren’t allowed to depart the room. So, we obtained caught within the room they usually had been giving us meals, three meals a day, a bottle of water with each meal. We couldn’t go anyplace. It was so difficult. After which after I was in China, once you go to eat or go into the eating places, everyone seems to be sporting these white hazmat fits. So, you’re the one one not sporting that. So, the foreigners are put right into a resort after which they’ve individuals in hazmat fits feeding you. It’s a very surreal expertise.”

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