Drunken Laundry Day with Charles Bukowski

There was a directorial team consisting of Fiona Tinwei Lam, H. Kristen Campbell, Henry Doyle, and Analee Weinberger.

Henry Doyle is a warrior-poet who has worked and lived in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver since coming west from Toronto in 2004. He is a long-time member of Thursdays Writing Collective at the Carnegie Centre in Vancouver. His work appears in various local magazines and anthologies and in a chapbook of his own poems, East Van Poems. “Drunken Laundry Day with Charles Bukowski” is his debut video poem.

Fiona Tinwei Lam has authored two poetry books and a children’s book, The Rainbow Rocket. Her poetry and prose appear in over 24 anthologies, including The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2010. She edited The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poetry about Facing Cancer. She has an M.F.A. from UBC and currently teaches poetry at Simon Fraser University’s Continuing Studies. Her video poems have been screened at the Zebra poetry film festival (“Omelet” in 2014), the Berlin Interfilm Short Film Festival (“Omelet” as part of the Best of the Zebra Poetry Film Festival in 2013), the Co-Kisser Poetry Film Festival in Minneapolis (“Aquarium” in 2013), the International Poetry Film Festival in Athens (“Aquarium”, “Chrysanthemum” and “Omelet” in 2013), Video Bardo in Buenos Aires (“Aquarium” in 2012), Vancouver’s Visible Verse Festival (“Chrysanthemum” and “Omelet” in 2009 and 2012) and the Sadho Film Festival in New Delhi (“Omelet” and “Aquarium” in 2015). www.fionalam.net

H. Kristen Campbell is an editor/filmmaker based in Vancouver, BC. She received her BFA from Emily Carr University & Design in 2012, and was also awarded the President’s Media Award for her animated thesis film, Swift. Her films have been showcased in several film festivals, including TIFF, OIAF, Anima Mundi, ITFS and NYCIFF. http://hkrisc.tumblr.com/

Analee Weinberger is a media educator and producer based in Vancouver, BC who specializes in video production as a tool for community engagement. She is the former Education Director at The Cinémathèque, a film institute in Vancouver, and worked prior to that at Necessary Illusions, a Montreal-based documentary production company. She holds a Master’s degree in social work from McGill University.