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Roger Chin

Roger Chin is a teacher who dabbled into filmmaking during his education degree, producing, directing and editing an educational film.  After sailing across the Pacific Ocean, he presented his travelogue film to several audiences including a show at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.  After hearing about California's Proposition 8 that banned gay marriage, he organized the Join the Impact (Nov 15/08) …

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Love ExiledLove Exiled · 2010
Love Exiled
★ 5.62010
MovieDocumentary
On November 4th, 2008, three states - California, Florida and Arizona - voted to amend their constitutions, denying and revoking the rights of same-sex couples to marry. On May 26, 2009, with Canadian allies, gay American families rally at a Vancouver demonstration to protest these amendments that persecute the LGBTQ community. Demonstration organizer Roger Chin relays the California Supreme Court's infamous decision on Prop 8. Subsequent speakers talk about couples living in exile. Weaving elements of public protest and intimate interviews, four families share their stories of how they met, their decision to escape to freedom in Canada, their Canadian experience and their dreams of returning to their home country, family and friends. In the end, the organizer celebrates the freedoms to marry that exists in Canada.

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Love ExiledLove Exiled · 2010
Love Exiled
★ 5.62010
MovieDocumentary
On November 4th, 2008, three states - California, Florida and Arizona - voted to amend their constitutions, denying and revoking the rights of same-sex couples to marry. On May 26, 2009, with Canadian allies, gay American families rally at a Vancouver demonstration to protest these amendments that persecute the LGBTQ community. Demonstration organizer Roger Chin relays the California Supreme Court's infamous decision on Prop 8. Subsequent speakers talk about couples living in exile. Weaving elements of public protest and intimate interviews, four families share their stories of how they met, their decision to escape to freedom in Canada, their Canadian experience and their dreams of returning to their home country, family and friends. In the end, the organizer celebrates the freedoms to marry that exists in Canada.

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