One man’s journey to a new life echoes to the next generation

“Jeanette Kong is an important, generational voice imparting the North American immigrant experience, with an intimate, lyrical body of work that tackles the largest of issues including identity and belonging —  at times with a disarmingly personal lens. A Brief Record of My Father’s Time at Sea is perhaps her most formative examination yet. While deconstructing her father’s journey from China to Jamaica to Toronto, it also morphs into an anthropological dig into the roots of a unique global diaspora and culture. She is mightily helped along the way by a father who has a poet’s soul — making the images soar, and the journey as much about the heart as the mind.” — Tony Wong, Television Critic, Toronto Star