Aleysa Young

Director

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Filmography

Kim's Convenience

The funny, heartfelt story of The Kims, a Korean-Canadian family, running a convenience store in downtown Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Kim ('Appa' and 'Umma') immigrated to Toronto in the '80s to set up shop near Regent Park and had two kids, Jung and Janet who are now young adults. However, when Jung was 16, he and Appa had a major falling out involving a physical fight, stolen money and Jung leaving home. Father and son have been estranged since.

6.9

North of North

A young Inuk woman wants to build a new future for herself after a spontaneous and extremely public exit from her marriage. It won't be easy in a small Arctic town where everybody knows your business.

5.9

Shelved

The eclectic staff and patrons in the underfunded Jameson branch of the Metropolitan Public Library deal with the community and each other’s eccentricities.

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The Z-Suite

Set at a boutique New York ad agency where generational divides see the established C-Suite and rising Gen Z employees collide. After a company decision spirals out of control, the agency's reigning executives are pushed out and the Z-Suite employees are suddenly put in charge, ultimately testing both generations' skills and patience.

7.3

Baroness von Sketch Show

This all-female comedy satirizes modern life's everyday concerns, from the pretentiousness of ordering a fancy coffee to office and sexual politics.

5.9

Run the Burbs

Follow the Phams, a young, bold Vietnamese-South Asian-Canadian family taking a different approach to living life to the fullest, while changing the way we think about contemporary family values and life in the burbs.

6.0

New Eden

Former cult leaders turned convicts, Katherine Wryfield and Grace Lee are interviewed about New Eden for the first time in a decade by two unseen documentarians. Using archival footage, interviews, and news clips, they begin to take us through the events that transformed New Eden from a feminist utopia into a drug addled, alien-worshipping disaster space…not to mention the murders.

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Who Is the Real Martin Short?

He’s a legend, a comic genius, and a national treasure… but who is the real Martin Short? This film goes straight to the source in an attempt to get to know the person behind the persona. It looks at the inspiration for some of Short’s favourite roles and uncovers the depth of his talent for observing, absorbing and developing idiosyncratic characters.

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