A documentary about 18 brave Chinese who hijacked Beijing-controlled media to broadcast uncensored news about the state-backed persecution of Falun Gong practitioners has won two major Canadian film awards.  “Eternal Spring,” directed by Toronto’s Jason Loftus, is an animated documentary that looks at the 2002 circumvention of a Chinese state television station. 
The story and animation by acclaimed Chinese comic-book illustrator Daxiong piece together events that occurred 20 years previously in his homeland, when he and fellow practitioners of the meditative practice Falun Gong became targets of brutal persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the late 1990s.  On May 8, “Eternal Spring” won both the Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Feature and the Hot Docs Audience Award, out of 225 films screened during the 11-day Hot Docs Festival. Hot Docs is the largest documentary film festival in North America, with films from 63 countries participating this year. 
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