Warrior Boyz Comes Home
Written by Justin Langille, Kwantlen Chronicle
It wasn’t a traditional homecoming, but the community of Surrey still welcomed it with open arms. On Nov. 3, nearly 200 people gathered in the conference centre at Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Surrey campus for an evening screening and panel discussion of Warrior Boyz, a documentary about the affect that gang culture has had on Metro Vancouver’s South-Asian-Canadian community.
"I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time, to show this film here in Surrey, at Kwantlen," director Baljit Sangra proudly told the crowd. "Much of this was filmed right across the street from here at Princess Margaret [High School]."
Moments later, the lights were dimmed and those in attendance were drawn into an intimate look at one of the Lower Mainland’s most notorious social epidemics, one that has claimed the lives of over 100 Indo-Canadian youth.
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