Award-winning Hong Kong filmmaker Jevons Au left his home for Canada last summer in fear of the Hong Kong national security law China imposed on the city in July 2020.

On Friday evening, Au will join dozens of other people from B.C.’s Lower Mainland to commemorate those who lost their lives in the military crackdown against democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tianammen Square — a vigil, he says, he’s been keeping since he was in Grade 2 when he first learned of the tragedy.