A new Canadian-made film tells the story of a daring operation by a group of Chinese citizens who brought uncensored news to China and its aftermath, weaving personal stories of courage and inspiring ones of resilience and faith. The film has been leading in an audience award poll since its screening in Toronto on May 3.
“Eternal Spring,” directed by Torontonian Jason Loftus, is an animated documentary that looks at a 2002 tapping into a Chinese state television station. The story and animation were drawn from acclaimed Chinese artist Daxiong, who tried to piece together the events that occurred 20 years ago ago in his homeland, where he and his fellow practitioners of the spiritual practice Falun Gong became targets of a brutal persecution directed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the late 1990s.
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