Greg Chan - KDocsFF Emerging Filmmaker Prize Juror and KPU Professor
@GregChan_Ink 陈 家 格 (he/him) is an educator, producer, and documentary activist at
@kwantlenu, where he has taught BIPOC literature and film studies in the English department since 1995. Specializing in intersectional social justice, he is the founder and editor-in-chief of KPU's official film studies publication, Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration and the co-director of
@KDocsFF (through which he runs its Community Outreach Program, Social Justice Lab, and KDocs Talks lecture series. Themed iterations of his third- and fourth-year film courses have focused on “Amplifying BIPOC Voices,” “The Hitchcockian Cinematic Universe,” “Cinematic Canadiana,” and “Not Your Sidekick Anymore: Asian Representation Matters.”
The recipient of KPU’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and JEDI awards, Chan is the curator of the “Symbolizing Obasan” literary-ceramics student exhibit installed at Historic Joy
@KogawaHouse and the coordinator of the 25’ KDocsFF Alice Street Legacy Mural depicting Elder Kat Zu’comulwat Norris installed in the @KPULibrary. Whether it is a Queer Radical Knitting Circle, an introduction to Chinese Mahjong, or an Indigenous Beading Workshop, Chan loves to create solidarity amongst the KPU campus community through KDocsFF Social Justice Lab programming. He is proud to be the son of a refugee who survived internment in India, a history which continues to inform his research, teaching, and community activism.
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