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Ms. Que BanhWhen Phillip Wong died by suicide, his family thought that silence would end their pain. But his sister, filmmaker Michelle Wong, needed to make sense of her brother's death. What drove him to end his life at age 36?
Weaving together intimate conversations with those closest to Phillip, as well as her own candid reflections, Wong embarks on a personal journey. Gently peeling away layers of silence, she uncovers her brother's story of gambling addiction and his lonely spiral into desperation, isolation and depression.
Filmed against the backdrop of the noisy casinos of Las Vegas and the quiet town of St. Paul, Alberta, the documentary lays bare the grief of family and friends. Sifting through feelings of guilt, sadness and shame, the once-fragmented family begins to discover a new closeness. This heart-wrenching film is a sister's uncompromising search for the truth and healing--for herself, her family, and others struggling with addiction.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/pieces-of-a-dream-a-story-of-gambling/
#AsianMastodon #AsianTaboos #SilenceIsDeadly #Compassion #Suicide #Trauma #ChineseCanadian #MentalHealth #ChineseFamily #Addiction #Gambling #Depression #Healing #Documentary #DocFilms
Pieces of a Dream: A Story of Gambling
Julia Kwan’s feature-length #documentary Everything Will Be captures a significant moment of time in #VancouverBC #Chinatown, with the influx of condos and new, non-Chinese businesses. The film follows a year in the life of several #Chinatown denizens, including a 90-year-old #Chinese newspaper street vendor and a second-generation tea shop owner, as they navigate this #community in flux.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/everything_will_be/
#AsianMastodon #ChineseInBC #CanadianHistory #ChineseCanadian #ChineseDiaspora #ChineseCommunity #ChineseCanadianHistory #History #Canada #Immigrants #CulturalHistory #CulturalDiversity #BritishColumbia #BCHistory #Racism #gentrification #YVR
Everything Will Be
This #documentary tells the story of a #Chinese #cemetery in #VictoriaBC that became a #NationalHeritage site. For Chinese #pioneers who died in Canada, Victoria's Chinese Cemetery at #HarlingPoint was a temporary resting place until their bones could be returned home. (Traditional Chinese belief says that the soul of a person who dies in a foreign place wanders lost until their bones are returned home.) This film traces the rich history of the #VancouverIsland cemetery from controversy and neglect to its revival as a #historic site. Told by those closest to it, the story of Harling Point is a metaphor for #Canada , a country still working on making a home for all who live within its borders.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/from_harling_point/
#AsianMastodon #ChineseInBC #CanadianHistory #ChineseCanadian #ChineseDiaspora #ChinesePioneers #ChineseCanadianHistory #History #Canada #Immigrants #CulturalHistory #CulturalDiversity #BritishColumbia #BCHistory #Racism #Resilience
From Harling Point
🧵#DocumentaryFilms I've enjoyed this month - in no particular order.
A rich and little-known part of Canadian history unfolds through the stories of the first Chinese women to come to Canada and of subsequent generations of Chinese Canadian women. It is an amazing tale of courageous women who left behind their families, knowing they would never see them again and of girls who were shipped off to the New World to marry men they had never met. These are the women who fought against the many forms of racism they faced in Canada while, at the same time, challenging sexism within their own communities. By passing on language, culture, and values to their children, these women defined what it means to be Chinese Canadian. Beautiful old photographs from family albums, the recollections of seven women who grew up in Canada in the first half of the 20th century, and the memories of narrator and director, Dora Nipp, whose grandfather came to Canada in 1881 to build the railway, create a remarkable story of stunning impact.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/under-the-willow-tree-pioneer-chinese-women/
#AsianMastodon #ChineseWomen #CanadianHistory #ChineseCanadian #ChineseDiaspora #ChinesePioneers #ChineseCanadianHistory #WomensHistory #History #Canada #Immigrants #CulturalHistory #CulturalDiversity #FilmsFriday
Under the Willow Tree: Pioneer Chinese Women in Canada
Did you know? The #UnitedChurch once operated a home and school in #VictoriaBC for #Chinese and #Japanese girls and women. Today, many are surprised to learn this. Margery Hadley, a professional #archivist and member of #FirstMetropolitanUnitedChurch in Victoria, has recently completed a #digitization project that makes the images of the Oriental Home and School available online. It opens to us a now distant world and its concomitant issues.
https://pacificmountain.ca/oriental-home-and-school-photos-online/
#FirstMetArchives has been privileged to care for two important historical documents from the #OrientalHomeAndSchool. The first is the #ChineseRescueHome Advisory Committee minute book, 1896-1915. The second is the Oriental Home and School album, a fascinating assemblage of 95 photographs of the Oriental Home community, mainly between 1907 and 1916.
The Oriental Home and School album is now available online. It is part of First Met’s #historic #photographs digitization project that involved digital scanning and description of over 500 images from our #archival collections. These photographs are available to the public on #Flickr. The Oriental Home and School album is one of ten sets of First Met’s #HistoricalPhotographs available for public viewing.
First Met gratefully acknowledges the generous financial support of the #BritishColumbia #History #Digitization Program (2015), sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, #UBC.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/firstmetarchives/albums/72157661823684156/
#AsianMastodon #YYJ #Lekwungen #VancouverIsland #ChineseCanadian #JapaneseCanadian #AsianCanadian #YYJhistory #AsianDiaspora
I remember me & others #FOBS - Fresh off the boat refugees, were treated with disdain by #Asian folks born here & it confused me a lot, as a little kid. I didn't understand why people who looked like me & my family, seemed to hate & not want to be anywhere around us refugee kids. It took me years to learn that they were so #whitewashed #indoctrinated, they became just as cruel to us as the white racist kids were. I felt sorry for them. I thought - how awful their lives must be, hating their own cultures & ethnicness. I got angry at their actions. I always felt more sorry for those #POC #brainwashed kids, than anger.
PhoenixSerenityI picked some #flowers from our #gardens to make a new #bouquet for my Dad's memorial altar. We are doing his one year passing ceremonies on Sunday afternoon.
#AsianMastodon #Teochew #Taoists #AsianCanadian #ChineseCanadian #ChineseStatues #DoorGuardians #bloomscrolling #florespondence #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #MemorialBouquet #CutFlowers
A new #exhibit has opened up at the #MahSociety of #Edmonton, taking visitors through more than a century of #ChineseCanadian #history.
The Journey of the Horse was created by Sue Mah & Andrea Maru.
The two met on a #heritage tour in 2019 back to their #ancestral village in southern #China, where they both inspired to share their family’s history & the #hardships early #Chinese #settlers to #Canada experienced.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10513329/edmonton-chinese-history-exhibit/amp/
How a thriving #ChineseCommunity was built despite #racism & #hardships.
For the #Chinese community of #Newfoundland & #Labrador it's a thriving community built in spite of racism, hardship & #discriminatory government policy.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7204696
#AsianMastodon #ChineseDiaspora #ChineseCanadian #ChineseHistoryInCanada #ChineseImmigrants #ChinesePioneers
How a thriving Chinese community was built in N.L. despite racism and hardships
A multi-generational group from Newfoundland and Labrador’s Chinese community took part in a conversation on The Signal that celebrated Asian Heritage Month. Find out why one young student thanked those who have paved a better road for her generation.