Lost Years: A People's Struggle for Justice

Lost Years: A People's Struggle for Justice
Directed by
Written by
  • Kenda Gee
  • Tom Radford
  • Brenda Terning
Produced by
  • Kenda Gee
  • Tom Radford
StarringKenda Gee, Took Gee, Hanson Lau, Gim Wong, Larry Kwong, Norman Lim Kwong, Grant Din, Bettie Luke, Donnie Chin, Emmy Mah, Arthur Loo, Esther Fung, David Fung, Kirstin Wong, Loong Wong, William Dere, May Chiu, Walter Tom, , Junaid S. Khan, Roderick A. Macdonald, Grace Chi, Constance Backhouse et al.
Cinematography
  • Rene Jean Collins DoP
  • Grigori Ozerski
Edited by
  • Brenda Terning
  • Perry Blackman
  • Brett Ardiel
Music byDarren Fung
Production
companies
Lost Years Productions, Inc.
Distributed byLost Years Media, Inc.
Release date
  • December 5, 2011 (2011-12-05)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryCanada
Languages
  • English
  • Chinese
  • French

Lost Years: A People's Struggle for Justice (Chinese: 失去的岁月) is a 2011 documentary directed by Kenda Gee and Tom Radford.[1][2][3][4][5] The film premiered on December 5, 2011, at the Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, where it won the Best Documentary Award for history and culture.[6][7] The film also aired as a two-part, national television mini-series for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.[8][9][10] A series of extended episodes subsequently aired on CTV Two Alberta, June 8 and 15, 2013, with repeat broadcasts on November 16 and 23.[11]

Gee and Radford began work on the film in late 1999, taking twelve years to fully research the movie.[12] Of the film, Gee and Radford stated that they were "originally inspired by the tale of Larry Kwong of Vernon".[13][14]

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  10. ^ "CBC TV – Absolutely Canadian, Episode 2 – Mar 3, 2012". CBC TV. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
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  13. ^ "Documentary shines light on Chinese-Canadian experience". CHBC News. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
  14. ^ "As Boston Bruins Takes 2:1 Stanley Cup Finals Lead, Larry Kwong Celebrates 90th Birthday". bostonese English-Chinese Online Journal. Retrieved 19 June 2013.