SAN JOSE, Calif.—Tears and silence filled the theater as audience members processed the emotional yet hopeful story in the award-winning film “Unsilenced.” Based on a true story, the two-hour film follows the experiences of an American journalist stationed in China as well as two young couples. The American journalist, tired of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) lies, resolves to take a big risk to bring the truth back to America. He quickly finds himself a target of the CCP. The movie also reveals the types of persecution and torture the two couples living in China endured as they spread the truth about the spiritual practice Falun Gong. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, includes meditative exercises and moral principles based on truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. According to official estimates, there were 70 million to 100 million Falun Gong adherents—more than the reported number of CCP members—before the CCP began …