Filmmaker Karen Cho travels from Montreal to Vancouver to uncover stories from the last survivors of the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act, a set of laws imposed to single out the Chinese as unwanted immigrants to Canada from 1885 to 1947. Through a combination of history, poetry and raw emotion, this documentary sheds light on an era that shaped the identity of generations.
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- ONF | NFB, Vision TV
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Karen Cho as Narrator
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Karen Cho · Director, Writer
Janet Lumb · Composer
Dino Giancola · Composer
Michael Wees · Cinematographer
Susan Shanks · Editor
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