An anti-Asian hate crime and elder abuse short film made by and for Asian San Francisco natives in the oldest Chinatown in North America and the largest Chinese enclave outside of Asia, our film features seven strong, Asian female characters, and an all-Asian lead cast.

Christina Capule is a Filipina Covid nurse and single mother. 33% of nurses who have died of Covid in the USA are Filipin@, even though only 4% of our nurses are. Like many working women, she is also juggling raising her homeschooled daughter under lockdown.

Angelica Capule is a 17 year-old School of the Arts high school student. When tragedy strikes one of her classmate's families, the girls take the lead and so does real life US Army medic veteran, Leanna Louie, who founded the United Peace Collaborative (UPC), an all-volunteer group who have been patrolling and keeping Chinatown safe seven days a week since March 2020.

Director Biography - Ximena Zhao

“Ximena Zhao is a Chinese, Spanish,  African, Ngäbe-Buglé (Native Amerikkkan), Portuguese, and  Sephardic  Jewess filmmaker from San Francisco. Her father was born in the same hospital as Bruce Lee (the now-demolished 1924 building of the Chinese Hospital in Chinatown). Ximena has one degree of separation from Ip Man in Wing Chun Kung Fu and she is the in-house filmmaker at American Kickboxing Academy (AKA), the oldest and winningest Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) academy, gym, and team in the world.

“Ximena  attended SF School of the Arts in Theatre Acting for one year before self-studying for the proficiency exam and testing out of high school to attend CalArts and SF City College. She represented herself in Superior Court to become an emancipated minor and moved to New Orleans to found her arts and social benefit non-profit. As an undergraduate at the University of New Orleans, she worked in sports broadcasting (NFL SuperBowl

on FOX Sports).

“In graduate school, she was the first clerk/intern at the largest provider of free legal services to the indigent in Northern California to manage her own Poverty Law caseload in three Counties at one time.

“She founded her own for-profit media company six years ago. After a detour into martial arts documentaries and media, “Kung Flu” is her first       narrative film entered into festivals.”