5à7 Podcast, S3E1: Filmmaker Baljit Sangra on Documentaries, Pandemic Filming and Vancouver Restaurants

The 5à7 Podcast is back for a new season with Vancouver filmmaker Baljit Sangra, whose latest documentary Because We Are Girls aired virtually on the closing night of the South Asian Film Festival of Montreal. It chronicles the path of three sisters who press charges against their cousin, who allegedly raped them while growing up in an immigrant Indian family in BC. The film is available online to stream on the National Film Board of Canada website. In this episode, we talk about producing and distributing films during a time of social distancing, as well as Baljit's recommendations for Vancouver restaurants, because this is the 5à7 Podcast, aka the happy hour podcast, after all. 

The 5à7 Podcast is a series of happy hour conversations with creative people – with a nod to the Quebec happy hour, aka the 5à7. They’re based around food, but guests go beyond chefs and restaurant owners to artists, entrepreneurs and other inspiring people you might have heard of. Take a sneak peak into the homes and lives of these guests, to hear stories that only seem to come out over a drink with a friend…or by Zoom during COVID-19.

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Here’s everything we mentioned on the podcast (mostly in the order we mentioned them):

South Asian Film Festival of Montreal: https://www.saffm.centrekabir.com/en/2020-edition-en/films/

Viva Manta Films: http://www.vivamantra.ca/

Baljit Sangra on Twitter: https://twitter.com/baljitsangra604

Where to view Because We Are Girls:

Free: National Film Board of Canada,

Outside of Canada: Amazon Prime

Official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU0CkXCnMOU

Film website: http://www.vivamantra.ca/because-we-are-girls

Savio Volpe: http://www.saviovolpe.com/

Les Faux Bourgeois: http://www.lesfauxbourgeois.com/

Fassil Ethiopian restaurant: http://www.fassil.ca/ 

Cioppino’s: https://www.cioppinosyaletown.com/

Vij’s: https://vijs.ca/

Minami: https://minamirestaurant.com/

About the “Jordan” application: http://criminalnotebook.ca/index.php/Right_to_a_Trial_Within_a_Reasonable_Time#:~:text=The%20%22Jordan%22%20framework%20sets%20a,of%20trial%2C%20minus%20defence%20delays 

UK Asian Film Festival: https://jeetipooni.com/documentary/

Hot Docs Toronto: https://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/