Leaf (The)

The(ir) Blurb...

THE LEAF is a personal, poetic, documentary film about a filmmaker’s experience as both a filmmaker and a gay immigrant during this pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic changed and destroyed everything in daily life, including filmmaking. Jobs in the art and film communities, may not be available months or years. Will Zang, a member of the San Francisco, filmmaking community, is experiencing this dilemma. As an immigrant from China, he struggles financially as a filmmaker in the U.S. At the same time, he is uncertain about whether he could be his true authentic self, a gay man if he moves back to China. However in the U.S., he faces the uprising of racism against immigrants, especially Asians. The film is composed of footage of San Francisco during the pandemic with voice-overs from news clips as well as friends in China to express the filmmaker’s depression.