Summary Of The Film 'Double Happiness'

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There are many prominent Vancouver Chinese-Canada women filmmaker that receives funding from the NFB. Most of these films cover issues such as racisms and cultural values which is often stories of immigrants. In terms of sexuality, most of their stories are about heterosexual women and their relationship with men. Most of their films do not directly deal with queer women sexuality issues. This shows their unwillingness to go against the norm because queer sexuality is still considered marginal and a dangerous subject to address; especially when it relates to ethnicity and race. For example, in Mina Shum's (1995) Double Happiness, deals with a Chinese girl who struggles with her families traditional beliefs in terms of their expectation of her