'Last Train Home' Goes on Long Journey With Chinese Migrant Workers pbs.org
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Lixin Fan is a Montreal, Canada-based documentary film director with the Canadian production company EyeSteelFilm and previously a producer/journalist at China’s state broadcaster CCTV.
Lixin's debut feature documentary Last Train Home* won several awards. He also worked as associate producer on the acclaimed feature documentary Up the Yangtze, and editor of To Live Is Better Than To Die about China’s AIDS crisis and was featured in Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast on BBC, CBC and PBS.
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*Last Train Home - Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers travel back to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the world's largest human migration, an epic spectacle that exposes a nation tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future.