Young documentary filmmaker Henna Mann noted the protest and created a film produced by the South Asian Studies Institute (SASI) at the University of the Fraser Valley. It’s titled Rails, Jails and Trolleys
No farmers, no food. That was the rallying cry of the Indian farmers’ protest movement, which was heard in Abbotsford, a city located in British Columbia, Canada, adjacent to the Canada–United States border, Greater Vancouver and the Fraser River, and around the world.
“This groundbreaking documentary captures the electric ethos of a protest that received international attention and the resounding response by Canadians to the movement,” the press release from SASI states
Young documentary filmmaker Henna Mann noted the protest and created a film produced by the South Asian Studies Institute (SASI) at the University of the Fraser Valley. It’s titled Rails, Jails and Trolleys. The film documents what was history’s largest farmers’ protest, and the Canadian diaspora’s response to it. Mann has also made a film about Abbotsford’s historic Gur Sikh Temple,
“This groundbreaking documentary captures the electric ethos of a protest that received international attention and the resounding response by Canadians to the movement,” the press release from SASI states. “A full year in the making the film tells the story of why and how the farmers’ movement ignited a nation, and youth, women and men from all over the world,” reported abbynews.com.
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