
Gimme a Faith
Season 4 Episode 4 | 56m 1sVideo has Closed Captions
Chinese college students discover the South’s Christian Bible Belt for the first time.
Thousands of Chinese students arrive in the United States each year, often confronting loneliness and culture-clash upon arrival. Arriving in North Carolina to study filmmaking, Hao Zhang is surprised to find a unique community of Chinese students, connected by a newly discovered evangelical Christianity that is often at stark odds with their communist roots in China.
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Support for Reel South is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Center for Asian American Media and by SouthArts.

Gimme a Faith
Season 4 Episode 4 | 56m 1sVideo has Closed Captions
Thousands of Chinese students arrive in the United States each year, often confronting loneliness and culture-clash upon arrival. Arriving in North Carolina to study filmmaking, Hao Zhang is surprised to find a unique community of Chinese students, connected by a newly discovered evangelical Christianity that is often at stark odds with their communist roots in China.
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Clip: S4 Ep4 | 1m 25s | Filmmaker Hao Zhang films his first experience witnessing a new Chinese student’s baptism. (1m 25s)
Gimme a Faith: First Time in Church
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Clip: S4 Ep4 | 1m 40s | Watch and see North Carolina from a young Chinese graduate student’s first church service. (1m 40s)
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