Christine Choy

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POV

1988

6.8 MovieThis film recounts the murder of Vincent Chin, an automotive engineer mistaken as Japanese who was slain by an assembly line worker who blamed him for the competition...

Who Killed Vincent Chin?

1987

7.3 MovieAmerica Undercover goes to the Madison Hotel in the skid-row section of downtown Los Angeles and talks to some of the desperate people living there. It talks to a...

The Best Hotel on Skid Row

1990

8.0 MovieBrash and opinionated, Christine Choy is a documentarian, cinematographer, professor, and quintessential New Yorker whose films and teaching have influenced a...

The Exiles

2022

9.5 MovieA matter-of-fact documentary of the massacre of over 300,000 Chinese civilians by the Japanese in the so-called 'Rape of Nanjing' in 1937. In the name of the Japanese...

In The Name of the Emperor

1998

7.0 MovieThis film exposes the daily humiliation regularly faced by women in U.S. prisons using firsthand accounts of inmates at the North Carolina Correctional Center for...

Inside Women Inside

1978

7.0 MovieThe film investigates the death of Japanese exchange student Yoshi Hattori, killed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on October 17, 1992.

The Shot Heard 'Round the World

1997

7.0 MovieThis is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and Whites live in a complex world of cotton, work, and racial...

Mississippi Triangle

1984

7.0 MovieIn 1992 the filmmaker Christine Choy returned to Shanghai for the first time in over thirty years: to track down the title of her family’s house that her mother...

Ha Ha Shanghai

2001

8.0 MovieA revolutionary political moment is captured firsthand by two independent women filmmakers shooting inside refugee settlements in Zambia and Angola in 1985. Depicting...

Namibia: Independence Now!

1985

6.0 MovieThis documentary examines the re-settlement of South-East Asian refugees in the United States in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The film begins with a montage of...

Bittersweet Survival: Southeast Asian Refugees in America

1982

10.0 MovieA personal journey by Oscar nominee Christine Choy discovering the impact of Chinese Development in Africa.

ReOrienting Africa: The Chinese in Ghana

2016

10.0 MovieThe career of iconic and influential poet and writer Audre Lorde is seen up until death.

A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde

1995

MovieWhen a young filmmaker turns the camera on documentarian, Christine Choy, her eccentric behavior and unconventional wisdom challenge him to question the ethics of...

Choy: The Making Of

MovieThis film focuses on the historic 1971 Attica prison rebellion in upstate New York. It targets the conditions that caused prisoners to take drastic steps toward...

Teach Our Children

1972

MovieThis raw, gutsy portrait of New York's Chinatown captures the early days of an emerging consciousness in the community. We see a Chinatown rarely depicted, a vibrant...

From Spikes to Spindles

1976

MovieTells the story of Larry and Trudie Long, a popular Asian American nightclub act of the '40s and '50s, told through the eyes of their daughter, actress Jodi Long.

Long Story Short

2008

MovieAn experimental documentary portrait of director Malcolm Quinn Silver-Van Meter's grandfather

Our Lady of Loreto

2020