Breathin': The Eddy Zheng Story

BREATHIN’: THE EDDY ZHENG STORY paints an intimate portrait of Eddy Zheng—the prisoner, the immigrant, the son, the activist—on his journey to freedom, rehabilitation and redemption. 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. The film interrogates the complexities and hypocrisies of crime and punishment in the United States, raising the greater question: For whom are prisons for?