Simon Fraser University’s Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC) and S.U.C.C.E.S.S. will premiere a one-hour documentary, “From C to C: Chinese Canadian Stories of Migration” expected to pack a 350-seat theatre at the Gold Corp Centre for the Arts.
The film which explores the fate of pioneer Chinese-Canadians through the eyes of their young descendants, shows this coming Monday, Nov. 29 at 149 West Hastings in downtown Vancouver.
With interviews in four languages — Cantonese, Mandarin, Taishanese and English — this film captures, on a personal level, the impact of the historical Head Tax and Exclusion Act imposed on Chinese immigrants to Canada from 1923 to 1947.
SFU-TLC video producer Jordan Paterson and his crew follow current-day young Chinese Canadians from their homes in British Columbia to their ancestral roots in China’s Guandong province. Most of Canada’s Head Tax payers were from Guandong and still spoke Taishanese, the province’s original dialect during the early part of their migration to Canada from 1858 to 1923.
Anyone can book a free seat to watch the 8 p.m. premiere of the film at the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema. Given the limited seating, filmgoers must make their booking by Fri., Nov. 26, so that they can pick up their tickets at the venue on the night of the screening.
Tickets can be booked by e-mailing full name, mailing address and number of tickets desired to tlcentre@sfu.ca.