Filmmaker Screening & Talkback | “Going Home” (2019) & “Valor and Memory” (2024)

Min Zhou is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area focused on telling Chinese American immigrants’ stories and bringing long-forgotten histories to light. The James is holding a double-feature screening of Zhou’s work.

Her film Going Home tells the story of 13 Chinese workers who participated in constructing the Transcontinental Railroad, and the discovery of their remains in Carlin, NV, in 1996. Zhou will participate in a talkback after the film. (Rated PG-13)

Co-produced with three-time Emmy Award winner, Bill Einreinhofer, Valor and Memory was released earlier this year. The film tells the story of the Flying Tigers, a group Americans, some of whom were Chinese-Americans, who went to China to fight for China during World War II.