Karin Lee
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Telus pitch Incorrigible
In 1939 Velma Demerson was jailed for falling in love with a Chinese man. Pregnant and without legal council, Velma was sentenced to two years in prison where she was tortured by a eugenicist doctor who attempted to abort her child. Though they both survived and she was able to marry her boyfriend upon release, social services seized their son. She was never able to reclaim him, and later learned that he had died. 60 years later she sued the Canadian government for wrongful incarceration, and continues to fight for the rights of the thousands of women imprisoned on the grounds of “incorrigibility” until 1964. In this powerful documentary we capture the story of a courageous woman who fights for her dignity by holding the Canadian government accountable for its history of racism and sexism.
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Passage of Dreams - Official Trailer
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The superb collection of Dr. Wallace Chung resides in the UBC Library, Special Collections. This documentary reveals the origins of the collection that houses the largest number of CPR artifacts in North America.
Karin Lee Films (Film Reel)
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5 short clips of Karin Lee's films: Canadian Steel Chinese Grit 1998; Made in China 2000; Comrade Dad 2005; Shattered 2007 and Plan B 2014. To order full films, please contact topdollarsisters@gmail.com
Plan B (Official Trailer ) - A Comedy Drama about a Woman's Health Clinic
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Plan B is an original comedy drama series which follows the staff in a Women's Health clinic who go about doing their job, while chaos in their personal and public lives ensues.
Passage of Dreams: The Chung Collection (film excerpt) - UBC Chung Collection
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Passage of Dreams: The Chung Collection chronicles the intertwined story of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Chinese who traveled from China and settled in Western Canada from the late 1800s. It is also a wonderful story of a 25,000 piece collection of Canadian Pacific Railway and Chinese Canadian artifacts donated by Dr. Wallace Chung to the University of British Columbia. To order the ful...
Cedar and Bamboo (Excerpt) - A Documentary about Chinese and First Nation Relations
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Cedar and Bamboo, produced by the Chinese Canadian Historical society of BC is a 22 minute film about Chinese and First Nations relations. To order the full documentary, please contact topdollarsisters@gmail.com
Small Pleasures (Short Film) - Chinook Jargon Barkerville Film
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Set in the late 1800's in Barkerville, Canada, "Small Pleasures" is about a Chinese woman with bound feet explaining the custom to a white woman and a First Nations woman. The language they speak is Chinook Jargon. To learn more, please contact topdollarsisters@gmail.com
Portrait of a Girl - A Story of Dance, Sexuality, Adoption, and Love
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This video is part of a portrait of Chinese dancer HanDongQing who speaks about her life, her sexuality and her story of adoption. To learn more, please contact topdollarsisters@gmail.com
Vancouver 1907 Race Riots: SHATTERED (installation video)
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100 years after the Anti-Asian race riots in Vancouver Canada, media artist Karin Lee questions the relationship between immigration, labour and business while commenting on the current phenomenon of globalization. SHATTERED brings together two historic perspectives of the riots while locating it within contemporary Vancouver. SHATTERED is written, directed and produced by Canadian Academy Awar...
Comrade Dad (film excerpt) - Growing up with a Socialist Father
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"Comrade Dad" by Gemini Award Winning director Karin Lee is about her father Wally Lee and the communist bookstore he ran on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s. This experimental biography explores both him as a person and how his ideological beliefs affected his family, set within the political landscape of Canada and China at the time of the Cultural Revolu...
Made in China - The Story of Adopted Chinese Children in Canada
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"Made in China" is a Gemini Award Winning documentary by Karin Lee following several extraordinary children and their adoptive families, who share with us their powerful, sad, humorous and inspirational stories. Made in China gives voice to young children who were abandoned in China and adopted by middle class Canadian families. The children, predominantly girls, discarded due to China's One Ch...
Canadian Steel, Chinese Grit (Excerpt) - Chinese Labour in Constructing the Canadian Pacific Railway
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A 1998 documentary by Gemini Award winning filmmaker Karin Lee about the construction of the western leg of the Canadian Pacific Railway and what Chinese Railway workers endured during this process. 48 minutes. To order the full documentary, please contact topdollarsisters@gmail.com

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @Muerteblanc
    @Muerteblanc Місяць тому

    Japanese steel

  • @MafaeJamie
    @MafaeJamie 10 місяців тому

    Bullshit 🐂 black people were building the railroad before these people came.

  • @frankyong2607
    @frankyong2607 Рік тому

    Just came across this excerpt one day after the National Remembrance/commemoration in the Senate Chamber, Parliament of Canada, Ottawa of the 100th anniversary year of the Chinese Exclusion Act of Canada, 1923.

  • @kalvineng5148
    @kalvineng5148 Рік тому

    Thank you for your / our family stories.

  • @1JUSTGOTLUCKY1
    @1JUSTGOTLUCKY1 Рік тому

    The Chinese greatly aided the Americans is building the American transcontinental railroad!! Their work ethic was amazing...labored everyday under harsh conditions!

  • @islandinfluence231
    @islandinfluence231 2 роки тому

    Great video and really educational Thank you

  • @sandralison7584
    @sandralison7584 2 роки тому

    Cool

  • @dondumas8842
    @dondumas8842 3 роки тому

    Paseooks Mashie, mashie kopa okoke youtskut Chinuk wawa film klootsman Lee! Yaka kloshe yiem pe poh delate toktie! Pee kopa naika, (naika oleman) yaka tenas kull kopa kumtux kopa kwolan kewah tin tin weght skookum pee wawa tenas klimin. Pee mashie hiyu, hiyu sikhs!

  • @potatoesarebetterthanyou8193
    @potatoesarebetterthanyou8193 3 роки тому

    Hi my teacher made me watch this like if yours did too

  • @P7777-u7r
    @P7777-u7r 3 роки тому

    I only just recently learned about the existence of Chinook Jargon and I think that its something we should have learned about in school teaching of BC history is very lacking which is a huge shame because this would have actually made socials class interesting. I want to learn more. The word "skookum" is still very massively used in BC so maybe more people in BC would have an interest in this if more people actually knew about it. A small criticism for the video itself: the left audio channel is way louder than the right.

  • @mamoudsalim8472
    @mamoudsalim8472 3 роки тому

    The music is very funny lol

  • @cantstoptherush29
    @cantstoptherush29 4 роки тому

    Woah! Hayu skookum, ukuk film! Delet tloosh nanich! Mahsi :) Seriously, you just brought to life some of the things I’ve been reading about Wawa. Thank you!

  • @christopherburleigh9171
    @christopherburleigh9171 4 роки тому

    The Wikipedia story on Velma Demerson says that she took her son to Hong Kong after her release from prison. That is in conflict with what it says here.

  • @ryanchang1434
    @ryanchang1434 4 роки тому

    I live in Canada and in Chinese

  • @asimmansoor5544
    @asimmansoor5544 4 роки тому

    i finished thoe

  • @asimmansoor5544
    @asimmansoor5544 4 роки тому

    yeah

  • @asimmansoor5544
    @asimmansoor5544 4 роки тому

    btw the music is SOOO anoying

  • @asimmansoor5544
    @asimmansoor5544 4 роки тому

    same

  • @cloakedmaple5797
    @cloakedmaple5797 4 роки тому

    I have to do work on this lmao

  • @alexandermry
    @alexandermry 4 роки тому

    兄弟萌好好写作业嗷

  • @kz4157
    @kz4157 4 роки тому

    Canada did not treat people fairly. >:(

    • @daniyalkhizar
      @daniyalkhizar 4 роки тому

      yES!

    • @ghostranger7005
      @ghostranger7005 4 роки тому

      And i hate them for it

    • @octavia4324
      @octavia4324 3 роки тому

      Yes they did, but thankfully they apologized to all Chinese Canadians and payed all Chinese Canadians effected by the head tax a symbolic ex-gratin payment!!! But, no apology will bring back the hundred of lives lost :(

    • @tysontang7679
      @tysontang7679 3 роки тому

      @@ghostranger7005 u can’t hate Canada for that if every other country did the same to every other race

    • @Shaker626
      @Shaker626 2 роки тому

      China does not treat people fairly. >:(

  • @MrAlexanderrangel
    @MrAlexanderrangel 5 років тому

    This is one of the most beautiful and historically important languages to north american and people hardly know

  • @benc4401
    @benc4401 5 років тому

    If you are from Mr.A social studies like this comment

  • @karinlouiselee
    @karinlouiselee 5 років тому

    Which music? I can let you know.

  • @rainbo3729
    @rainbo3729 5 років тому

    If anyone can tell me the name of this music I would really appreciate it.

  • @ShaddySoldier
    @ShaddySoldier 5 років тому

    Nice to hear chinook jargon isn't totally dead

  • @sakhalnakhash1123
    @sakhalnakhash1123 6 років тому

    Thank you for this film. I was a little confused until I read the description. But I think it's a rather well done scene. When worlds collide.

  • @canman5060
    @canman5060 6 років тому

    It was a all round blind violent attack on Asian in those days.Keep Our Country White is the slogan of the day which is silently endorse by the City of Vancouver.

    • @chriszag702
      @chriszag702 4 роки тому

      sure lost that fight, its nothing but people from china and india now

  • @patrickmcwilliams696
    @patrickmcwilliams696 9 років тому

    For some reason the volume is very low, even at maximum setting. I cannot hear the dialog.

  • @beartracks
    @beartracks 10 років тому

    Hahahhaa hahhahah I am a chinuk language teacher this is funny

  • @alduswong
    @alduswong 11 років тому

    D 台山話超正!

  • @gimmegoosebumps
    @gimmegoosebumps 11 років тому

    Loved it. Especially the animation and green screen

  • @PoetryETrain
    @PoetryETrain 11 років тому

    Karin, this is amazing. I added the trailer to a playlist...

  • @LivingHistorySchool
    @LivingHistorySchool 12 років тому

    FYI there is a dictionary publish this year by the Grand Ronde Tribe here in Oregon. There is a two year language coarse on CJ at our local community college.

  • @karincilee
    @karincilee 12 років тому

    how do you know wawa? are you in kamloops area?

  • @karincilee
    @karincilee 12 років тому

    Klahowya! my great grandmother and great grandfather used it in Barkerville, BC when they lived their in the late 1800's, and i remember my grandmother, uncles and other relatives using Chinook jargon - which I thought was Chinese, until I did some research and realized how it got integrated into the Chinese my relatives spoke here in Canada. Then I started to learn it on my own, asking elders if they knew any words. I wanted to make a film with it, so I kept looking up words, then scripting.

  • @LivingHistorySchool
    @LivingHistorySchool 12 років тому

    where did you learn your Chinook jargon?