October 14, 2010
12:00 p.m. | UBC First Nations Longhouse, 1985 West Mall
Set throughout BC, Cedar & Bamboo explores the intercommunity histories and shared experiences of Chinese Canadians and First Nations. Directed by filmmakers Diana Leung and Kamala Todd, its central focus is on the lives of four people of mixed Indigenous and Chinese ancestry and their formation of strong and meaningful identities in spite of the difficulty of reconciling divergent identities, racist laws, the complexities of familial and ethnic acceptance and/or rejection and personal identification with and alienation from Canada and Canadianness, Chinese First Nations and Indigenous identity.
Presented by CCIE and the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia. Co-sponsored by: The Indigenous Education Institute of Canada