Migration: The Three Gorges Dam—China from Within (Enhanced DVD)
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The Three Gorges Dam was something to be feared for Grandma Pang, who as an 87-year-old senior of her village was to be relocated. Many villages along the water way had the same fate and were forced to leave their homes in order to avoid the rising waters that the dam would cause. For these people, the changes were not all seen a something positive.
This documentary is the result of over three years of filming, interviews, and story telling, and it chronicles Grandma Pang’s journey. It stats with her beloved traditional lifestyle, her uprooting from her physical and emotional home, and the difficulties she and her family encountered during the relocation, construction, and adapting after the dam was finished. Share in the joy, fear, uncertainty, and heartache as Grandma Pang and her family try to survive and ake a home away from home as the construction on the Three Gorges Dam got underway.