Join director Louisa Wei in discussion after this free screening of GOLDEN GATE GIRLS at The Norm Theatre on Monday, September 15 at 6 pm.
This is the story of filmmaker Esther Eng, the first woman to direct Chinese-language film in the US, and the most prominent women director in Hong Kong in the 1930s. A San Francisco native and open lesbian, her contribution to film history is sadly overlooked and her 11 feature films mostly lost.
GOLDEN GATE GIRLS paints a fascinating picture of how Eng’s career in filmmaking broke through gender and racial boundaries in Hollywood and Honk Kong, at a time when opportunities for Chinese women in the industry were few and far between.
