Watch Breathin': The Eddy Zheng Story (2016) Online

Arrested at 16 and tried as an adult for kidnapping and robbery, Eddy Zheng served over 20 years in California prisons and jails. Ben Wang’s BREATHIN’: THE EDDY ZHENG STORY paints an intimate portrait of Eddy—the prisoner, the immigrant, the son, the activist—on his journey to freedom, rehabilitation and redemption. BREATHIN’ moves with a deep, critical love, unafraid in confronting the hard truths of Eddy’s crime, the harsh realities of mass incarceration and the intertwined emotional hardships experienced by all involved. The film finds Eddy at many crossroads — in and out of parole hearings, organizing in the community, othered and at risk of deportation — his resilience and astounding compassion resounding throughout. In chronicling Eddy’s decades-long struggle for freedom, the film interrogates the complexities and hypocrisies of crime and punishment in the United States, raising the greater question: For whom are prisons for? Read More

Watch Breathin': The Eddy Zheng Story online. Featuring Eddy Zheng, Breathin': The Eddy Zheng Story is classified as Documentary genre movie with an average rating across the web of 8. It is available for streaming online in the USA on 1 services such as Kanopy. The movie was filmed in United States of America and was released on 2016. Breathin': The Eddy Zheng Story was directed by Deann Borshay Liem,Ben Wang. Read Less