Breathin': The Eddy Zheng Story (movie)

Breathin': The Eddy Zheng Story (movie)

  • User score: 8
  • Production country: United States of America
  • Producer: Ben Wang
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release date: 3/11/2016
  • Run time: 58 min.

Movie description

Arrested at 16 and tried as an adult for kidnapping and robbery, Eddy Zheng served over 20 years in California prisons and jails. Ben Wang’s BREATHIN’: THE EDDY ZHENG STORY paints an intimate portrait of Eddy—the prisoner, the immigrant, the son, the activist—on his journey to freedom, rehabilitation and redemption. BREATHIN’ moves with a deep, critical love, unafraid in confronting the hard truths of Eddy’s crime, the harsh realities of mass incarceration and the intertwined emotional hardships experienced by all involved. The film finds Eddy at many crossroads — in and out of parole hearings, organizing in the community, othered and at risk of deportation — his resilience and astounding compassion resounding throughout. In chronicling Eddy’s decades-long struggle for freedom, the film interrogates the complexities and hypocrisies of crime and punishment in the United States, raising the greater question: For whom are prisons for?

Actors

Eddy Zheng

Eddy Zheng

Role(s): Eddy Zheng

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