In The Shadow of Gold Mountain (movie)

In The Shadow of Gold Mountain (movie)

  • Production country: Canada
  • Producer: Karen Cho
  • Production companies: ONF | NFB, Vision TV
  • Genre: Documentary, History
  • Release date: 11/7/2004
  • Run time: 43 min.

Movie description

Filmmaker Karen Cho travels from Montreal to Vancouver to uncover stories from the last survivors of the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act, a set of laws imposed to single out the Chinese as unwanted immigrants to Canada from 1885 to 1947. Through a combination of history, poetry and raw emotion, this documentary sheds light on an era that shaped the identity of generations.

Actors

Karen Cho

Karen Cho

Role(s): Narrator

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