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Check out the Asian Community Development Corporation’s annual summer event this weekend: Films at the Gate!

The Chinatown community will gather right at the Chinatown Gate, just around the corner from One Greenway, to enjoy free outdoor Kung Fu films at this large public art gathering.

This year’s event takes place from Friday August 26^th through Sunday August 28^th. See below for the schedule of films and check out this photo gallery from last year’s event!

Program Schedule

• Friday:
  • 7:00pm Performance: Wah Lum Kung Fu
  • Two short films: TBD
  • 8:00pm Film: Pui Chan Documentary – Step into the extraordinary life of a Chinese immigrant who overcame challenges in early childhood… and eventually made a life for himself.… One that would touch the lives of many others around the world. It all started with a simple dream… and today, the dream lives on. This family-authorized biography follows the path of a young boy who learns the value of hard work and perseverance through kung fu training, escapes the harshness of political oppression, bravely ventures out on his own, and embraces opportunity in a new land. Watch the beginning of an eager martial arts instructor in 1960s Boston, Massachusetts, open his own Kung Fu school, and start to spread the tradition, always maintaining the original fundamentals and values he learned as a boy.

• Saturday
  • 7:00pm Performance: Daoist Gate Wudang Arts
  • Two short Films: TBD
  • 8:00pm Film: Woman Knight of Mirror Lake – In late-19th century China, Qui Jin was many things: a defiant rebel armed with both blades and guns; a paramilitary leader dedicated to overthrowing an unjust government; a non-conformist who boldly donned men’s attire in spite of tradition; a radical poet whose words inspired the oppressed; a heroic martyr whose views on equality altered history. Her steadfast resolve to improve the plight of women and her bravery in the face of tyranny led her to the executioner – but her determination to topple the status-quo changed a nation forever

• Sunday
  • 7:00pm Performance: Bow Sim Mark Tai Chi Arts Association
  • Two short films: TBD
  • 8:00pm Film: The Kid with a Tattoo – This film finds the Shaw Brothers production company doing a variation on the type of kung-fu comedy that Jackie Chan was having success with around the same time. In The Kid With A Tattoo, Wong Yue plays the Jackie Chan-style role as Li Bao-Tong, the son of a cotton mill owner. He’s simple-minded and indifferent to his father’s desire for him to learn the family business but is an excellent martial artist, thanks mainly to lessons he gets from a beggar living secretly in his town.