A Passage Beyond Fortune
Documentary Press Kit
National Film Board of Canada, 2022
“When the tunnels started, they never talked to the Chinese community,” Gale recounts. “They say Chinese people lived in [the tunnels] and hid in here… not that I know of!” Old framed photographs and documents are fanned out on the dining room table as Gale Chow sits with his wife Myrna and their sons. The Chow family lives in Moose Jaw, where a popular but untrue story about the city’s underground tunnels persists. In A Passage Beyond Fortune, filmmaker Weiye Su follows the Chows as they reflect on this harmful myth and the entanglement of their family’s overlapping roots in Moose Jaw, dating back to the 1880s.
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