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Hollywood Rebranded My Hometown | How a Movie Transformed Nelson, BC

Sujata grew up in Nelson, British Columbia, a small mountain town in the Kootenays. Long before it became a film location, it was a mining town, a railway town, and later a refuge for draft resisters and counterculture communities.Then in 1986 something strange happened.  Hollywood arrived.Sujata returns to her hometown to explore how film, myth, and memory reshaped Nelson’s identity.

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