Shuya Chang stars alongside Sung Kang and Jade Wu as a conflicted human trafficker in documentary filmmaker Evan Jackson Leong’s first narrative feature.
Multihyphenate Evan Jackson Leong leverages his well-established documentary career for an impressive feature debut with, a reality-based narrative film about the personal and collective ramifications of human trafficking. Even as Leong was working on his breakout 2013 pro basketball doc,, he was envisioning and planning a leap to a broader canvas that could encompass the criminal breadth of New York’s Chinatown underworld.
Convinced that his perspective as a sixth-generation Chinese American could humanize news reports about Asian gang ascendancy in the United States, Leong took his cues from the criminal career of Cheng Chui Ping, known as “Sister Ping,” a trafficker who operated between Hong Kong and New York in the 1980s and ’90s.
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