S. Louisa Wei, also known as Wei Shiyu, is a Chinese filmmaker, film producer, script translator and educator.
The film traces the life and times of Esther Eng, a San Francisco native known as Hong Kong’s first “directress.” She directed 10 Cantonese talkies.
The story focus on Caridad and Georgina, who had learned the art of Cantonese Opera in Havana as a young age and performed as divas for over a decade before their lives were changed by Fidel Castro's revolution.
Wang Shiwei was known to most as the first victim of Chinese Communist Party's literary persecution, who was killed in 1947 while CCP troops were retreating from Yenan.
