Guest: The Inspiring Life of Eddy Zheng – A Bay Area Community Leader Facing Deportation – A Video Interview with Ben Wang

This video is an Angola 3 News interview with filmmaker Ben Wang, focused largely on the book by and about Asian American prisoners that he co-edited with Chinese American community leader Eddy Zheng, published in 2007 and the issues presented in the book.

Below is the video trailer from the latest film by Ben Wang – Breathin’: The Eddy Zheng Story. The film’s website explains that after serving over 20 years behind bars for a robbery he committed at age 16, Zheng now faces deportation to China, a huge loss to the Bay Area community. Released from prison in 2007, Eddy has dedicated his life to preventing youth violence and delinquency through his work at the Community Youth Center, Community Response Network, and many other SF Bay Area programs and organizations.