Canadian drama sequence “Streams Flow From a River” will debut in Canada on Super Channel, obtainable on Apple TV and Prime Video Channels, on April 1.
The sequence is within the Canneseries quick format competitors and could have its worldwide premiere on the pageant on April 18.
Produced by Canadian scripted manufacturing firm Fae Pictures, “Streams Flow From a River” (6 x 14′) is the primary Canadian sequence from an all-Asian writers’ room and 75% East Asian crew led by producer Shant Joshi (“Framing Agnes,” “Porcupine Lake”). Joshi is considered one of MipTV’s Producers to Watch 2023 and will probably be attending Mip-Canneseries Connections occasion.
Created by author and director Christopher Yip (“Fish Boy”), the sequence brings ahead the invisible struggles that Chinese Canadian immigrant households face whereas attempting to make a house within the West. With nods to Asian cinema movies like Edward Yang’s “Yi Yi” and BBC drama “I May Destroy You,” “Streams Flow From a River” revolves across the Chow household, who dreamed of proudly owning land and positioned their bets on a laundromat within the tiny rural city of Frank, Alberta. When a freak snowstorm traps the dysfunctional household collectively of their hometown, they’re pressured to confront occasions from a decade in the past that tore all of them aside.
Shant Joshi, president of Fae Pictures, stated: “’Streams Flow From a River’ is a proof-of-concept for the progressive methods that now we have advocated for within the Canadian and world display sectors: authenticity being our North star for high-quality content material, with solid and crew who join with the story to go above and past to deliver their finest work on display, and connecting that content material with audiences who perceive the experiences of our characters as a basis to construct intrigue and word-of-mouth.”
“We are eternally grateful to the exhausting work of showrunner Christopher Yip and the solid and crew behind the manufacturing, in addition to the staff at Canneseries for recognizing the standard of the sequence. We really feel privileged to be a part of a second within the telling of ground-breaking Asian American tales, from ‘Pachinko’ to ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ to ‘Riceboy Sleeps,’ to call a couple of,” Joshi added.
Yip stated: “My hope is that by means of this sequence we will air out the soiled laundry inside our group on the matters which can be taboo – corresponding to homophobia and alcoholism – in order that by means of having these conversations we can transfer in direction of therapeutic.”
