Vancouver’s Chinatown neighbourhood has a storied, hard-fought past, and residents are now fighting yet again to secure its future.
It’s a struggle echoing across North America, a documentary showing soon in Vancouver details.
Historic Chinatowns in Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto and New York are fighting for the space to define themselves in Karen Cho’s Big Fight in Little Chinatown, which will be screened in Vancouver’s Documentary Film Festival on Thursday.
“People don’t sit there and watch gentrification happen to their community,” Cho, a Chinese Canadian filmmaker, told CBC’s North by Northwest on Monday.
“It was important for me to find those pockets of resilience and resistance.”
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