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    Golden Gate Girls

    S. Louisa WEI 2012 Hong Kong Documentary color 90min English, Cantonese DCP
    The stories of pioneering women are often lost in time because historians find it difficult to "place" them within the larger historical context. This documentary weaves together the life of Esther Eng, a San Francisco born "Golden Gate Girl" who made ten Chinese films on two sides of Pacific, and juxtaposes it with the fascinating stories Anna May Wong and Dorothy Arzner. Esther Eng, once honored as
    the first woman director of Southern China and the only one during her movie career, crossed boundaries of both gender and culture by making Cantonese language films for Chinese audiences during and after WWII. She was in fact the only woman directing feature length films in America after Dorothy Arzner's retirement in 1943 and
    before Ida Lupino began directing in 1949. Drawing on the marks she left in both the Chinese and English press, this film begins to recover some of her lost stories. In this film, clips from her two films, stills from her eight other motion pictures, photos from her six albums, newsreels of San Francisco, as well as hundreds of archival images are all collected to present her life and work in a display of stunning visuals.

    Director

    S. Louisa WEI

    She received her PhD in Film Studies from the University of Alberta, Canada and learned filmmaking after she moved to Hong Kong to begin teaching at City University of Hong Kong. Her oeuvre as a documentary film director includes the short music documentary Cui Jian: Rocking China (2006) and feature length documentary Storm under the Sun (2009). Storm under the Sun is the very first work on Mao Zedong's purge of Chinese writers. It took her three years to shoot Golden Gate Girls; however, the idea began in 2002.

    S. Louisa WEI

    2006《崔健：搖滾中國》Cui Jian: Rocking China
    《紀錄之旅：原始檔案》A Piece of Heaven: Primary Documents
    2009《紅日風暴》Storm under the Sun
    2013《金門銀光夢》Golden Gate Girls

    Director & Screenplay & Narrator & Editing & Cinematography/ 魏時煜S. Louisa WEI Producer/ 羅
    卡 LAW Kar, 魏時煜S. Louisa WEI Cast/ 伍錦屏Sally NG, 黃文約James M. WONG, Graham HODGES,
    Robert C. JONES, Todd MCCARTH, 羅卡LAW Kar, 羅中郎LAW Chung-Long, 吳千里WU Chin-Lee, 李
    奇峰Danny LI Chi-Kei, 譚勇為TAN Yong-Wei, 鄺萬霖Kenneth KWONG, 小燕飛SIU Yin Fei, 馬金鈴
    Margartet MA, 劉蝶兒Genievie LAU

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