Big Fight in Little Chinatown

Karen Cho

2022

Big Fight in Little Chinatown is a story of community resistance and resilience. Set against the backdrop of the COVID pandemic and an unprecedented rise in anti-Asian racism, the documentary takes us into the lives of residents, businesses and community organizers whose neighbourhoods are facing active erasure. Coast to Coast the film follows Chinatown communities resisting the pressures around them. From the construction of the world’s largest vertical jail in New York, Montreal’s fight against developers swallowing up the most historic block of their Chinatown, big box chains and gentrification forces displacing Toronto’s community, to a Vancouver Chinatown business holding steadfast, the film reveals how Chinatown is both a stand-in for other communities who’ve been wiped off the city map, and the blueprint for inclusive and resilient neighborhoods of the future.

Do-It-Yourself Screening Kit

We have developed this Do-It-Yourself Screening Kit as part of our efforts to make the film as accessible as possible to audiences so that it can continue to have impact within communities far and wide.

This kit includes an Activation Guide with resources and ideas for planning, promoting and organizing your screening, an Education Guide that provides historical background, present-day context and deeper learning opportunities around the film themes, and lastly, a Discussion Guide tailored towards different audiences.

We want to offer this kit with the film on a PWYC basis for the organizing of non-commercial community screenings. Generally, a single screening license would be $ 250-500 CAD. With that in mind, we want the film to be accessible to organizations of all scales and therefore there is no minimum fee requirement. Please pay what you can based on your organization's funding capacities. For subtitled versions (french, chinese) or other formats please get in touch.

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