​*TWN is proud to announce the educational release of Richard Fung's DAL PURI DIASPORA.* ​​ *"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* read more <http://twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=1418&card=price> watch trailer <http://youtu.be/PbpwrXtY7O0> download press kit <http://www.twn.org/catalog/guides/DalPuriDiaspora_PressKit_Web.pdf> *​How to Order* *Credit Cards Orders* Visit www.twn.org and use our shopping cart system, which works with PayPal, OR download our order form and fax the form to (212) 594-6417, OR call (212) 947-9277 ext, 11 to place your order over the phone. *Institutional Purchase Orders* Purchase orders are accepted only from Higher Education Institutions, Schools, Public Libraries, Corporations, and Government Agencies when printed on institutional letterhead. Submit your purchase order by fax, (212) 594-6417, email, [log in to unmask] or mail: Third World Newsreel, 545 8th Avenue, Suite 550, New York, NY 10018. <http://twn.org/twnpages/orders/orderinfo.aspx> more info <http://twn.org/twnpages/orders/orderinfo.aspx> ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: https://listserv.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html