NATIONAL POST: Filmmaker Lixin Fan puts a human face on China’s massive economic growth.

“In 2006, Canadian filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal released the award-winning Manufactured Landscapes, a documentary that examined China’s sprawling industrialization; that same year, a young Lixin Fan moved to Montreal from Hubei province in central China to work on Up The Yangtze, an award-winning documentary about the Three Gorges Dam.

Now, Fan has completed his own debut feature, Last Train Home, which opens Toronto’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival tonight before coming to theatres on Friday.”