Documentaries

Ginger Post World Inc. is the sole distributor of documentaries independently produced by the late Anthony B. Chan.

Anthony B. Chan was a journalist, historian, university professor and documentary producer. He was the Senior Producer and Anchor of the weekly Forum, TVB Pearl Channel, Hong Kong, and Producer and Narrator at CBC (Alberta and Saskatchewan). In addition, he was an independent producer of documentaries, which are listed below:

Asians in the West: Asian Americans and Vietnam Collection: a four-part film documentary series 1992 – 2007:

American Nurse

Sweet Heat

The Insanity of It All

Lily Goes Home

“Asian Americans and Vietnam, is a remarkable collection of four documentaries that chronicle the collective memories of Asian American Vietnam Wear veterans during their years in Vietnam and after their return to the United States. Chan has not only chronicled the militarization of race and gender, but has also exposed a previously obscure part of the American war in Vietnam that is important to see and remember.”

Joane Nagel, University of Kansas, Asian Affairs: An American Review, 2007.

American Nurse

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfkmtoPqvMM  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx_cCtDyfbg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyCV35ykMbc

Sweet Heat

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6NPfNPYWW0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Iib03UFAKo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4YcR5WKdY

The Insanity of It All

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tuexBeVl90

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kubcM1qwKB4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtSz5tnmCQU&feature=related

Lily Goes Home

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEtw25lZJ48

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7lxvzS8JR4

Chinese Cafes in Rural Saskatchewan

1985

Due to the legal racist discrimination in Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries, denying the Chinese immigrants and their children enrollment in higher education or entry into professions, many of them opened cafes and restaurants in order to make a living. This documentary is the first ever that presents not only the historical phenomenon of the ubiquitous presence of Chinese cafes across Canada but also the lives of the Chinese restauranteurs as am integral part of rural Saskatchewan.

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILPbvU3VbeE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HePpmGD0_bU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8R9ydzydoc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glH915-wmuQ

Another Day in America

1989

A sensitive portrayal of the historical background, and the life and works of Japanese American female artists in the San Francisco Bay Area.

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFw3qj19wWA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNMxac1CU3w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKmRqEOrD-0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4yuaTgQd_c

The Panama

1996

An insightful presentation of one Chinese Café, The Panama, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It was  founded by Chan Dun who immigrated to Canada after the trans-Canada railway was completed in the last decade of the 19th Century.  The Panama was the context in which Chan Dun’s children and grandchildren grew up as well as the backdrop against which their Chinese Canadian identity was nurtured.

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVhCRxpm374

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWnDlreykdg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ_pIsRLy_4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNu3Ol_FYM4