Cavebirds : a film presentation and discussion with filmmaker Emily Gan

Come and join us for a free screening of the award-winning documentary film Cavebirds in presence of the filmmaker Emily Gan!

About the film and the filmmaker

In Cavebirds, the filmmaker tracks her father’s progress in building an edible-nest swiftlet birdhouse in his hometown – a small village in Malaysia he left more than half a lifetime ago. Together they explore the places they call home on opposite sides of the globe, while the birds fly unceasingly from scene to scene bridging the cultural and generational gaps between a daughter and her immigrant father.

CAVEBIRDS is Emily Gan's debut feature documentary, which garnered her the Emerging Canadian Filmmaker Award at Hot Docs in 2019, where the jury members stated that the "film was a quiet personal reflection on the complexities of migration and belonging, told through poetic details and poignant autobiographical reflection.” Cavebirds is now available globally on streaming platforms, including AppleTV+, and has also been adapted into a radio doc. Emily's first full-length narrative film Pink Lake, was co-created with filmmaker and singer-songwriter Daniel Isaiah Schachter, and premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2020. Emily also freelances as a photographer and yoga teacher. She is currently working on another feature-length drama and a short experimental horror doc.