Its mission is to develop and create cinema that empowers people who are marginalized by mass media and to introduce the Asian cult and genre films to the wider public.

In addition, Ciné-Asie Creatives acquired the Canadian distribution rights to the Korean films Breathless by Yang Ik-june and My Dear Enemy by Lee Yoon-ki.

Founded in 1996 as a registered company, Ciné-Asie started its activities in 1997 with the "Three Korean Master Filmmakers" event in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver in collaboration with cinémathèques in Canada and the New York Cultural Center.

After a six-year break Ciné-Asie resumed its work by programming and coordinating Asian-Canadian film screenings at the Asian Heritage Festival for Access-Asie, a non-profit organization in Montreal.

The winning short films of Ciné-Asie's second National Portrait Contest in 2009 were: Nguyen-Anh Nguyen with Mon nom est Tuan (2008); Jason Karman with State of Yo (2007); Kelly-Anne Riess with A Tall Tale (2009); and Mina Vladimir with Harvest Moon (2009).