Golden Gate Girls is a 2013 documentary film focusing on the life and works of Esther Eng (1914-1970), once honored as the first woman director of Southern China.
[3] She left her mark in both the Chinese and English press enabling director S. Louisa Wei to recover some of her lost stories.
Clips from her two extant films, stills from her eight other motion pictures, photos from her six albums, newsreels of San Francisco as she saw them, as well as hundreds of archival images are collected to present her life and work.
[7] The final version of the film, as director S. Louisa Wei reveals to China Daily's Chitralekha Basu, is the ninth and re-titled Golden Gate Girls in English.
Kevin M. Thomas of San Francisco's The Examiner praised Golden Gate Girls as "more than a loving tribute to [Esther] Eng, set to the most amazing jazz music."