DIRECTOR: Julia Kwan
FEATURING: Bob Rennie, Ken Lum
(Canada, 2014, 86 min.)Related Links: Trailer | Article | Review | Q&A | BUY TICKETS Award winning Vancouver filmmaker Julia Kwan trains her eye on our own backyard, Chinatown, Pender, Hastings and Main St, and no matter how well you think you know this area, you’re bound to come away with new insights into the people and businesses that make up this once vibrant community. It’s a neighbourhood in transition, a culture in decline — or on the cusp of gentrification. This isn’t an advocacy doc, but a wise, ruminative portrait, an elegy perhaps, but also a celebration of entrepreneurial energy, resilience and creativity. The community’s oldest and newest members offer their intimate perspectives on the shifting landscape as they reflect on change, memory and legacy. Night and day, a neon sign that reads “EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT” looms over Chinatown. Everything is going to be alright, indeed, but the big question is for whom? GUESTS: Director Julia Kwan will be in attendance.
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GUESTS: Director Julia Kwan will be in attendance.
