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Vanessa Matsui is a Japanese-Canadian, actor, director, and writer based in Toronto, Ontario. She specializes in creating taboo-breaking dark comedy with heart. She is drawn to stories about failure and outsiders and finds the funny in the darkness. Her feature film directorial debut, "Midnight At The Paradise”, is now available on Paramount+ ...
Ghost BFF is a Canadian comedy web series, which premiered in 2018 on WhoHaha. [1] Using humor to combat the stigma around mental illness, the series centres on Amy (Vanessa Matsui), a woman whose life is turned upside down when her friend Tara ( Kaniehtiio Horn ), who committed suicide by drug overdose three years earlier, returns as a ghost ...
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Vanessa Matsui: I’m a half-Japanese, half-Canadian actress-writer-director who grew up in Toronto. I’m also a mom. I first got involved with filmmaking in my early 20’s after being a hired actor for WIDC in Banff. I was so inspired by the female director-writers that I met there that I decided to make my first short film. It went on to screen at th...
VM: Ghost BFFis a dark comedy about two best friends, Amy and Tara. Tara, the ghost, died by suicide and comes back to earth to confront her best friend on some recent life choices but also to find closure on earth. The idea came about after I lost a friend to suicide and had another friend who was suicidal.
VM: I think this world would be in a lot less trouble if there was equality, if there was diversity at the table, and if everyone got to enjoy clean water, safety, and shelter—not just a few. It’s important to my filmmaking because female voices have been ignored for so long. Only seeing and presenting one gender’s perspective is not only boring bu...
VM: I’m writing two new pilots for TV (one that is inspired by my Great grandmother’s journey from Hiroshima to Canada and one about the female mid-life crisis) and I’m also in a new show on Netflix called Grand Army which should be coming out soon and continuing my role on Letterkenny.
VM: I’m such a TV fan so my pick is A BLACK LADY SKETCH SHOW. It is unreal how funny it is. I love it with my heart and soul and have watched some of the sketches dozens of times.
Vanessa Matsui is a director-actor-writer and her feature debut, Midnight At The Paradise is available on Paramount+. She is an alumna of the Sundance New Voices Lab where she developed the second season of her critically acclaimed hit web series Ghost BFF, which she created, wrote, directed for, and starred in.
Jul 12, 2023 · Q 13:00 Vanessa Matsui on her cinematic ode to movies in Midnight at the Paradise. In her new film, Midnight at the Paradise , Canadian actor and director Vanessa Matsui pays tribute to how movies ...
Vanessa Matsui is a director-actor-writer and her feature debut, Midnight At The Paradise is available on Paramount+. She is an alumna of the Sundance New Voices Lab where she developed the second season of her critically acclaimed hit web series Ghost BFF, which she created, wrote, directed for, and starred in.
VANESSA MATSUI is a writer-actor-director from Toronto of Japanese decent. She created and stars in the short series Ghost BFF, which won Best Web Series at the LA Femme International Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Web Series at the Austin Film Festival in 2017 and for two Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.
