Gold Mountain Heroes
Maxine Hong Kingston in Stock-ton, California.
' You must not tell anyone," my mother said, " what I am about to tell you."
So begins MAXINE HONG KINGSTON'S first book The Woman Warrior, in which she does tell her mother's stories - elaborated family history mixed with myths, movies and her own vivid recollections of childhood. In Chinamen she tells stories of her father's laundry and illegal gambling hall, about her grand-father who helped to build the trans-America railroad, and her brothers who fought in the Vietnam War.
In this film, Maxine ' talks-story ' about her family who left China for the Gold Mountain, America and of the life they found there. Film cameraman KEVIN ROWLEY Sound recordist PETER EDWARDS Film editor VIC VINE
Production assistant SUE EVANS Producer JOHN ARCHER