Jordan Paterson’s docudrama Tricks on The Dead: The Story of the Chinese Labour Corps in WWI is this year’s #mustseeBC audience winner and red carpet screening at the Vancouver International Film Festival.
Congrats to @TRICKSDEADFILM – the official winner of this year’s #mustseeBC Audience Award and red carpet screening! pic.twitter.com/zmYNpfKApl
— Vancouver Film Fest (@VIFFest) September 25, 2015
History is nothing but a pack of tricks we play upon the dead. — Voltaire.
Tricks on the Dead looks at a shameful chapter in our history during World War I when 140,000 indentured Chinese labourers were secretly sent in locked train cars and ships from Vancouver and other Canadian cities to Europe’s western front where they dug trenches and cleared away the dead.
Tricks on The Dead: The Story Of The Chinese Labour Corps In WWI won this year’s Leo Award for Best Short Documentary as well as the Best Cinematography Award for Documentaries (Jordan Paterson/Norman Li) and Picture Editing Award for Documentaries (Jordan Paterson).
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Screenings – September 30th at 6:45 p.m. in the International Village #10/October 4th at 3:45 p.m. at SFU Woodwards.