Fwd: Re: Deepa Mehta

[SL Jones]

Two years ago Canadian filmmaker Ali Kazimi premiered a stunning documentary on the Kamagata Maru incident, which has since won several awards, called "Continuous Journey". He did eight years of research to bring the incident to life, and contextualizes it brilliantly within the documentary in terms of the British Empire of the time, and current US and Canadian immigration policies. Worth taking a look at.
  Sally Jones

Moira Day <moiraday at DUKE.USASK.CA> wrote:
  Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 06:50:52 -0600
From: Moira Day <moiraday at DUKE.USASK.CA>
Subject: Re: Deepa Mehta
To: CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA

And of course, the basis of Sharon Pollock's early play, The Kamgata Maru
Incident.

Moira

Quoting Denis Salter :

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Deepa Mehta's next film is called Exclusion and is, in her words, "a true
> story and is about a group of Indians-Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims-who attempted
> to immigrate to Canada. They arrived in 1914 travelling on a Japanese coal
> ship called the Kamagata Maru but like many before them were barred by the
> racist immigration policies. They then mounted a legal action to try and get
> asylum. It lasted two months, they lost and they were sent back to India.
> "When they disembarked at Calcutta the British army opened fire and killed
> most of them. One of the survivors eventually went back to Canada and shot an
> immigration officer responsible for barring the group. It's an incredible
> story." Source: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/may2006/deep-m15.shtml
>
>
>
>
> --Denis Salter.
>
> ____________________________________
> "In 2005, the world . . . pass[ed] the trillion-dollar mark in the
> expenditure, annually, on arms. We're fighting for $50 billion annually for
> foreign aid for Africa: the military total outstrips human need by 20 to 1.
> Can someone please explain to me our contemporary balance of
> values?"--Stephen Lewis.
>
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