Comrade Dad (film excerpt) - Growing up with a Socialist Father
"Comrade Dad" by Gemini Award Winning director Karin Lee is about her father Wally Lee and the communist bookstore he ran on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s. This experimental biography explores both him as a person and how his ideological beliefs affected his family, set within the political landscape of Canada and China at the time of the Cultural Revolution.
Comrade Dad twists the memories of a socialist-raised child into further reflection from an adult who is conflicted over the schism between idealism and pragmatism, socialism and capitalism, and personal desires and political activism.
Comrade Dad is written, directed and produced by Canadian Academy Award (Gemini) winning director Karin Lee.
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