Golden Gate Girls Screening in Manchester This Friday

The Chinese Film Forum UK is screening the film Golden Gate Girls (Louisa Wei, Hong Kong 2013) as part of a conference on Chinese Cinemas in and outside of China to be held on 11-13 October 2013 at Cornerhouse, will mark the culmination of two years of funded support from the AHRC.

Golden Gate Girls
Louisa Wei, Hong Kong 2013
In Cantonese, English
88 mins

This highly personal documentary chronicles director Louisa Wei’s efforts to reconstruct the life and career of Esther Eng, a Chinese-American director born in San Francisco in the early 1900s. Today, Eng has been virtually forgotten. Wei’s documentary paints a fascinating picture of how her career in filmmaking broke through gender and racial boundaries in Hollywood and Hong Kong, at a time when opportunities for Chinese women in the industry were few and far between.

Writer/director Louisa Wei will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.

Kindly RSVP to: cffuk.mcr@gmail.com

The Chinese Film Forum UK is an AHRC-supported research network based in Manchester that was set up for the research and promotion of transnational Chinese film. The network includes Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Salford, the University of Manchester, Confucius Institute, Chinese Arts Centre and Cornerhouse. More information may be found on our website: www.cffuk.org