After the death of her husband and her son, Mama Yang immigrated to New York from Taiwan at the age of sixty for a new life. For more than two decades, Mama Yang has been corresponding with inmates serving long-term imprisonment in New York.
The documentary follows Mama Yang’s extraordinary life journey to tell the stories of a group of people searching for a way out of tragedy, who encounter each other in a world of loneliness. How do they cope with the pain of loss and how do they survive?
Filmed over the course of ten years, Come Home, My Child narrates the American Dream through the eyes of Mama Yang and these inmates.
Presented by
Jasmine Chinghui Lee
Mama Yang
Taiwan
2023
In English and Mandarin with English subtitles
Sexual language
Open to youth!
$10 youth tickets available
Book Tickets
Sunday February 09
Indigenous & Community Access
Credits
Producer
Liao Ching-Sung
Cinematography
Pin-Wen Lien, Ching-Hui Lee
Editor
Ching Sung Liao
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