The Illegal ImmigrantThe Illegal Immigrant

Mabel Cheung₂s debut unfolds as the quintessential American story: that of the ₃illegal₄ immigrant, doing anything they must to survive in the so-called land of the free. After a raid on a Canal Street garment factory leaves Cheung targeted by immigration agents, the mainland refugee resorts to a sham marriage with a reluctant acquaintance named Cindy to access a green card. An NYU graduation project miraculously funded by Shaw Brothers Studio, Mabel Cheung₂s The Illegal Immigrant was entirely shot on location in New York₂s Chinatown, in authentic gambling parlors and video stores, amidst real-life gangsters and undocumented immigrants cast as non-professional actors.