​*TWN is proud to announce the educational release of Richard Fung's DAL

PURI DIASPORA.*

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*"Sound, smell and taste can act as powerful memory triggers giving food

the power to transport the eater back through time, perhaps even home."*

--Michele Henry, Toronto Star



The recipe for dal puri traveled with indentured workers from India's

Gangetic plain to southern Caribbean colonies of Britain and the

Netherlands in the 19th Century. In the 1960s the wrapped roti migrated

from Trinidad to North America, where it is known as Caribbean or West

Indian roti and is popular in cities like New York and Toronto. As the dish

moved from home fire to street stall to restaurant chain, and from festival

to fast food, the flatbread was radically transformed in ingredients,

cooking method, ways of eating and identity. Shot in Toronto, Trinidad and

India, this documentary tracks dal puri's remarkable passage across space

and time, linking colonialism, migration and the globalization of tastes.

The documentary features interviews with leading food writers and scholars

including Pushpesh Pant, Naomi Duguid, Brinsley Samaroo, Radhika Mongia and

Patricia Mohammed.



Richard Fung is a Toronto-based video artist, writer, theorist, educator

and public intellectual who has pushed forward the debates about queer

sexuality, Asian identity and the uneasy borderlands of culture and

politics. His work comprises of a series of challenging videos on subjects

ranging from the role of the Asian male in gay pornography to colonialism,

immigration, racism, homophobia, AIDS and his own family history. His work,

which include MY MOTHER'S PLACE (1990), SEA IN THE BLOOD (2000) and

UNCOMFORTABLE (2005), have been widely screened and collected

internationally, and have been broadcast in Canada and the United States.

Richard received the Bell Canada Award for Lifetime Achievement in Video as

well as the Toronto Arts Award for Media Art. He is Associate Professor in

the Integrated Media program at the Ontario College of Art and Design.





*Samsung Audience Award, Toronto Reel Asian International Film FestivalBest

Feature Film, CaribbeanTales International Film Festival*

Dhaka International Film Festival

Madurai Film Festival

Reframe, Peterborough

Trinidad and Tobago International Film Festival

Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival



*Richard Fung | 2012 | 80 min | DVD with Digital File $500*

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