Scene from "JOURNEY OF A PAPER SON"

A dramatic short film by Ming Lai.

Working on PAPER SON was meaningful not only because it educates us of the consequences of Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 but how it effected my own family's beginnings in the United States. My father's family had sponsored a paper son and my mother's father was a paper son. In this scene, my character reacts to her father wanting to change his "paper" last name to his birth last name.