
Director Jean Shim crosses A Great Divide to build empathy in response to anti-Asian racism
Shim will be at a Vancouver Asian Film Festival screening of her movie about the Lee family—acted by Ken Jeong, Emerson Min, and Jae Suh Park.

Shim will be at a Vancouver Asian Film Festival screening of her movie about the Lee family—acted by Ken Jeong, Emerson Min, and Jae Suh Park.

「真的够了。」这句话在导演 Jean Shim 的脑海中回响,当她在疫情期间目睹整个北美爆发反亚裔仇恨的时候。「我只是目瞪口呆,」Shim,一位韩裔美国人,在 Zoom 上告诉 Pancouver。 「在我这个年龄,我没想到这种事会发生在我的社区里。」

「真的夠了。」這句話在導演 Jean Shim 的腦海中迴響,當她在疫情期間目睹整個北美爆發反亞裔仇恨的時候。「我只是目瞪口呆,」Shim,一位韓裔美國人,在 Zoom 上告訴 Pancouver。 「在我這個年齡,我沒想到這種事會發生在我的社區裡。」



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This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.
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