Golden Fortune

2017, 25 minutes

Inspired by a true crime story. Hoping to build a real life and make his family proud, a young Chinese undocumented immigrant leaves China for Los Angeles to seek legal identity through corrupted asylum fraud.

Inspired by a true crime story. A 25-year-old Chinese young man, Yuzhong Chan has been working in various Chinese restaurant kitchens since he illegally entered the United States in the hope of a better life. As he moves to Los Angeles to seek legal identity through asylum fraud, he meets and falls in love with a waitress at his cousin's restaurant. When Yuzhong receives a phone call from his asylum lawyer that he missed his court hearing, where would the tide of fortune take him to?


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Ashish Dawar
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