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His landmark feature documentary, Lost Years, which touches upon 150 years of the Chinese diaspora in Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Australia, has received over 18 international awards and award nominations to date. The film premiered on December 5, 2011 at the Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, where it won the Best Documentary Award for history and culture. The film has also been shown as a two-part television mini-series for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, nationally, with extended episodes on CTV Two Alberta,  June 2013. It holds the distinction as the first Chinese (Asian) Canadian documentary mini-series to be broadcast on a major national network in Canada and is currently on pace to becoming the most viewed Canadian-made production in television broadcast history before the end of 2013 with an international audience beyond North America in Asia and Oceania.
His landmark feature documentary, Lost Years, which touches upon 150 years of the Chinese diaspora in Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Australia, has received over 21 international awards and award nominations to date. The film premiered on December 5, 2011 at the Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, where it won the Best Documentary Award for history and culture.
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Lost Years was nominated for two Canadian Screen Awards for Best Original Music, and Best Sound in a Documentary Program or Series, Toronto, March 3, 2013, and is Winner, Best Feature Documentary, Asians on Film Festival, Los Angeles, February 15-17, 2013. It is also the Grand Prize Winner, Best Feature Documentary, 16th Rhode Island International Film Festival, August 7-12, 2012.
The award-winning work has also been shown as a two-part television mini-series for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, nationally, February-March 2012, with extended episodes on CTV Two Alberta,  June 2013. It holds the distinction as the first Chinese (Asian) Canadian documentary mini-series to be broadcast on a major national network in Canada and is currently on pace to becoming the most viewed Canadian-made production in television broadcast history before the end of 2014 with an international audience in Asia and Oceania. It was nominated for two Canadian Screen Awards for Best Original Music, and Best Sound in a Documentary Program or Series, Toronto, March 3, 2013, in the nation event's inaugural year.  
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{{From|http://www.lostyears.ca/team.html}}
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Lost Years is a multiple Winner at the International Film Festival Manhattan for Best Feature Documentary, Best of the Best (Festival), and Film Achievement & Social Advocacy, Oct 17-20, 2013; the Winner, Best Feature Documentary, Asians on Film Festival, Los Angeles, February 15-17, 2013; and, the Grand Prize Winner, Best Feature Documentary, 16th Rhode Island International Film Festival, August 7-12, 2012.
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The film represented Canada at the biennial Sichuan TV Festival, November 16-18, 2013, where it was nominated for the Special Jury Award (Society), its 21st award nomination, to date. In July 2012, Lost Years was named one of the top films of the past decade by Guangzhou International Documentary Festival's "Golden Days".
 
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{{From|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Years:_A_People's_Struggle_for_Justice}}
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Years:_A_People's_Struggle_for_Justice
http://writinglikeanasian.blogspot.ca/2015/05/feature-five-qs-with-kenda-gee.html
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http://www.facebook.com/lostyearsface
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