"In the Shadow of Gold Mountain" Gets Vancouver Premiere

Film Features Local Chinese Canadian Activists and Leaders

Where: Firehall Arts Centre, 280 East Cordova, Vancouver
When: 11:00am and 4:30pm, Sunday, November 21, 2004

Film-maker in attendance. Seating Limited.
By donation - suggested $5.00. No one turned away for lack of donation.

Written, directed and narrated by Karen Cho, this National Film Board
production sheds light on an era that shaped the identity of generations
of Chinese in Canada. Cho, a fifth-generation Canadian of mixed
heritage, uncovers stories from the last survivors of the Chinese Head
Tax and Exclusion Acts from 1885-1947. Moving testimonials reveal
the profound ways this history still casts its shadow.

Charlie Quan, Roy Mah, Gim Wong and Hanson Lau, all Greater
Vancouver residents, are featured in the film. There are also segments
with Margaret Mitchell, the former Van East MP who brought brought
redress to Parliament and Libby Davies, the current Van East MP still
pursuing redress on behalf of constituents. Also with shots on camera
are Ujjall Dosanjh, former B. C, Premier and current federal Minister of
Health, former Vancouver councilor Tung Chan, current Vancouver
councilor Ellen Woodsworth and Mary-Woo Sims, former Chief
Commissioner of the B. C. Human Rights Commission..

This Vancouver film premiere is presented by the Vancouver
Association of Chinese Canadians and the National Film Board
with the assistance of the Chinese Canadian National Council
and National Anti-Racism Council of Canada.

For more on film and redress:
http://www.onf.ca/intheshadowofgoldmountain/
http://www.ccnc.ca/redress/

High resolution photos available at www.nfb.ca/photogallery/shadowofgoldmountain

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