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Host Peter McCully chats with Black Press Media journalist and award-winning filmmaker, Arnold Lim.
Lim鈥檚 parents moved to Canada from South Korea with just $5 in their pocket. When Arnold was born, his father put aside a certain amount of money to buy a camera to document his growth.
鈥淲hen I was 16, he gave that camera to me. I remember that moment and thinking to myself, 鈥業 am going to be a photographer one day. I鈥檓 going to tell stories through a lens,鈥欌�� said Lim.
Directing the feature film All in Madonna, which won numerous awards in 2020, Lim has followed it with his own story My Name is Arnold. It details the story of when he was 10 years old growing up in Blue River, B.C.
鈥淚 was the only Asian kid in the school, and it wasn鈥檛 always an easy experience,鈥� he said. 鈥淧eople would hit me; they would call me names. No one cared, no one did anything. I didn鈥檛 do anything. It was a time where I went to school angry almost every single day. Maybe to process that and maybe for cathartic reasons, I wrote a short, I called it, My Name is Arnold.鈥�
My Name is Arnold recently won awards at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival, for Best Overall Short Film and Best Performance.
Lim has worked as a photo manager at the last four Olympic Games and tells McCully of his experience in Japan and China during the COVID-19 pandemic.
鈥�(In Japan) The rooms are so tiny over there, I was getting claustrophobic,鈥� said Lim 鈥淲e weren鈥檛 allowed to leave the room. So, we got stuck in the room and they were giving us food, three meals a day, a bottle of water with every meal. We couldn鈥檛 go anywhere. It was so challenging. And then when I was in China, when you go to eat or go into the restaurants, everyone is wearing those white hazmat suits. So, you鈥檙e the only one not wearing that. So, the foreigners are put into a hotel and then they have people in hazmat suits feeding you. It鈥檚 a really surreal experience.鈥�
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