Name: The Chinese Diaspora in Film - Istanbul and Argentina
Start: 2016-10-04T19:15:00-07:00
End: 2016-10-04T21:30:00-07:00
Location: Taiwanese Cultural Centre

The Chinese Diaspora in Film - Istanbul and Argentina

The Pacific Canada Heritage Centre – Museum of Migration (PCHC-MoM) Society is a non-profit society incorporated in 2011 to build a wider and improved understanding of Canada’s history and growth through intercultural explorations of historic and current trans-Pacific immigration.Our aim is to build a Museum of Migration on the West Coast.For now, we function as a “Museum Without Walls”, offering interactive educational programs all-year round. We will be the hub where Canadians will:•	learn about the missing, silenced or previously ignored Pacific Canada and Indigenous stories;•	research their family history and share their stories;•	examine recent and historical relationships and interactions between the relationships between immigrant-settler communities and Indigenous hosts.

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FILM SCREENING AND Q&A PANEL WITH THE FILMMAKERS
The Chinese Diaspora in Film – Istanbul and Argentina
 Taiwanese Rotary Club introduces two dynamic episodes of ground-breaking Chinese Restaurant film series, Istanbul and Argentina by the award-winning filmmaking duo, producer/director Cheuk Kwan and cinematographer Kwoi Gin.
Tuesday, Oct 4, 7:15pm at the Taiwanese Cultural Centre, 8853 Selkirk Street, Vancouver, BC. (Free event)
Istanbul
Istanbul’s China Restaurant is the oldest Chinese restaurant in Turkey. Its founder, Wang Zhengshan, fled China with his family in a dramatic trek over the Himalayas in 1949 when Chinese Communists took power, thereby earning a place in the urban legend as the man who “walked from China”. Wang died in 1961, leaving his widow Fatima and eight children struggling to survive. Now as Fatima contemplates retiring, the restaurant faces an uncertain future.
Argentina
77-year old Foo-Ching Chiang came to Buenos Aires in the 1960’s and became the “Spring Roll King” of Argentina.  His Casa China is a restaurant and cultural center bridging Argentinean and Chinese cultures.  Chiang’s fervent ideal of internationalism is tempered by his own solitude.  While his family lives elsewhere on the planet, he lives his remaining years amidst the melancholy music of the seductive tango. 
 
About the Filmmakers
Cheuk Kwan was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan and immigrated to Canada in 1976. In 1978 the community activist founded The Asianadian, a magazine dedicated to the promotion of Asian Canadian arts, culture and politics and the following year, helped lead a nation-wide fight for equality for Chinese Canadians. In 1995 Kwan joined the Harmony Movement, a national, non-profit organization dedicated to fostering harmony and diversity in Canada through public education. Kwan studied film at New York University in 1998 before establishing his own production company, Tissa Films. His ground-breaking Chinese Restaurant film series touches the heart of the Chinese diaspora in a way no one has done before or since.
Kwoi Gin has worked as cinematographer for numerous films and documentary including These Shoes Weren’t Made for Walking (1995), When Strangers Re-Unite (1999), 5 x 90: The Wake (2005) Re:Orientations (2016). As director of photography for Chinese Restaurants (2000-2003), Kwoi traveled more than 200,000 kilometers with filmmaker Cheuk Kwan to thirteen countries to capture the definitive Chinese diaspora story.
 
Hosted by the Taiwanese Canadian Cultural Society
Presented jointly by the PCHC-MoM Society and the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop
 
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