National Film Board of Canada

Everything Will Be

Julia Kwan’s feature-length documentary Everything Will Be captures a significant moment of time in Vancouver’s Chinatown, with the influx of condos and new, non-Chinese businesses.

The film follows a year in the life of several Chinatown denizens, including a 90-year-old Chinese newspaper street vendor and a second-generation tea shop owner, as they navigate this community in flux.

Treasure Green Tea Company is excited and honoured to be featured in award-winning director Julia Kwan's latest film release "Everything Will Be". A story that looks into how our favourite neighbourhood, Vancouver's Chinatown, faces changes over the years.

EVERYTHING WILL BE - Director Julia Kwan

EVERYTHING WILL BE
Director: Julia Kwan | Trailer
National Film Board of Canada

This feature documentary by Sundance award-winning director Julia Kwan captures the subtle nuances of a culturally diverse neighbourhood—Vancouver’s once-thriving Chinatown—in the midst of a transformation that plays out across many ethnic enclaves in North America. The community’s oldest and newest members offer their intimate perspectives on the shifting landscape as they reflect on change, memory and legacy. Night and day, a neon sign that reads “EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT” looms over Chinatown. Everything is going to be alright. The big question is—for whom?

The 33rd annual Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) brought some of the finest British Columbia produced films to Vancouver screens this fall. The 13 features confirmed for the BC Spotlight include the newest work from celebrated filmmakers Vic Sarin and Julia Kwan (both past VIFF award winners).

Film Credits - director Julia Kwan, producer David Christensen